Word: comibol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief of the government's Comibol mining enterprise declared that Catavi-Siglo Veinte was being closed "temporarily" because of "extremist agitators." But the next day, Co-Presidents Barrientos and Ovando ordered the mining complex reopened. Troops had already rooted out the troublemakers and packed 300 of them off to government colonization projects in the country's rugged north. Clearly, there was more behind the uprising than a local labor dispute. "Wages are not really important," admitted one union leader. "What we want is the overthrow of the military dictatorship...
...huge Cat-avi-Siglo Veinte complex, where thousands of well-armed miners had barricaded themselves. At that point, the miners requested a 48-hour truce. Barrientos insisted on unconditional surrender. He then summarily canceled all union wage increases granted since last Aug. 31, 1964, and gave the Comibol state mining company freedom to hire and fire any workers it chose...
...Lechin. As boss of the country's 26,000 tin miners, the former Vice President had been doing his best to complete the destruction of Bolivia's economy by refusing to cooperate in a program to reform the country's nearly bankrupt Comibol tin-mining enterprise...
...sooner was Lechin out of the way last week than Barrientos announced a sweeping program to put Comibol on its feet. As a starter, the bullet-hard air force general tossed all top union leaders out of office, called for new union elections within 40 days, and before the week was out, exiled 36 more Communist and leftist union bosses to Paraguay. To make sure the orders would be enforced, he put the country under a state of siege and ordered a military draft of all Bolivians between the ages...
...Patino, Aramayo and Hochschild families-and nationalized the mines that provide 90% of Bolivia's exports. Under state management, however, payrolls became featherbeds and machinery wore out. The once-rich mines now lose an average $8,500,000 a year. Only lately has Comibol, the government mining company, reached an agreement with the U.S., the Inter-American Development Bank and West Germany for a $38 million modernization of the tin industry-provided Comibol reduced its padded 27,000-man payroll. Last August, when the first 1,015 workers were laid off, the Communist-infiltrated tin workers' union staged...