• Catavi is a tin mine in Bolivia, near the city of Llallagua in the province of Bustillos, Potosí Department. Along with the Siglo XX mine, it is part...
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  • The Catavi massacre was a massacre of striking miners by Bolivian government forces at the Catavi mine on 21 December 1942. The official report indicated...
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  • the Huanuni mine took Catavi mine`s title of the largest underground tin mine in the world. This title would belong to the Huanuni mine to the end of...
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    is a tin mine in Bolivia. It is located in the city of Llallagua in the province of Bustillos, Potosí Department. Along with the Catavi mine, it is part...
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    Universidad de Santiago de Chile. 2017. Jerry W. Knudson, The Impact of the Catavi Mine Massacre of 1942 on Bolivian Politics and Public Opinion. In: The Americas...
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  • When Paz Estenssoro jailed several militant labour activists, miners in Catavi mines responded by seizing a group of hostages, including four US citizens...
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  • Cuevo, Cordillera Province, Santa Cruz Department 6,000 Catavi Massacre 21 December 1942 Catavi mine, Bustillos, Potosí Department 19–400 Massacre of striking...
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  • with a ceremony that included giving gold bars to Bolivian authorities. Catavi massacre San Juan massacre List of massacres in Bolivia "La 'Masacre de...
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    British Columbia. The US Geological Survey has classed the Chorolque and Catavi tin deposits in Bolivia as porphyry tin deposits. Some porphyry copper deposits...
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  • Vauxite from Siglo Veinte Mine (Siglo XX Mine; Llallagua Mine; Catavi), Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia...
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    Monazite-(Ce) Monazite-(Ce), Quartz. Locality: Siglo Veinte Mine (Siglo XX Mine; Llallagua Mine; Catavi), Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosí Department...
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  • name given to an attack by the Bolivian military on miners of the Siglo XX-Catavi tin mining complex in Bolivia. The attack occurred on 24 June 1967, in the...
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    Military troops again occupied the mines, and in 1967 they massacred miners and their families at the Catavi-Siglo XX mines. Barrientos could not wholly silence...
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  • investigation of the Catavi Massacre of striking miners and their families by government troops at one of the Patiño mines in Catavi in 1942. MNR's influence...
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  • next 10 years he built up the control of nearby mines and other important mines in Bolivia, including Catavi, Siglo XX, Uncia and Huanuni. By the 1920s he...
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    the Catavi and Siglo XX tin mines, both of which were owned by the mining tycoon Simón Iturri Patiño. While working as a machinist in the mines, he was...
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    installed concentration camps in rural towns in the Bolivian Andes, such as Catavi, Uncía, Corocoro and Curahuara de Carangas. Numerous political opponents...
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    and Fernando met in Oruro in 1942. In that same year, on December 21, the Catavi massacre took place. "There in the pampas that were later named 'María Barzola'...
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  • when they had received no response, they gathered another demonstration in Catavi. Domitila’s work with the Housewives’ Committee would lead to her arrest...
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  • unpopular. The continued escalation of opposition ultimately resulted in the Catavi massacre in which anywhere from 19 to 400 striking miners were shot by the...
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    Devonian are often referred to as Antarctilamna sp.(for example from Bolivia (Catavi Formation), Colombia (Cuche Formation, Boyacá), and Pont de Suert, Spain...
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    executive secretary of the Bolivian Workers' Center from 2006 to 2012. Born in Catavi, Montes spent most of his life as a mineworker at complexes in Oruro and...
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    when he was leading a demonstration protesting the massacre of miners in Catavi (1942). It was love at first sight and they eventually married in 1943 and...
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    and 1922 Bolivia government forces killed at least 19 striking mine workers in the Catavi Massacre of December 1942; the workers themselves counted 400...
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    Born to a mining family from Catavi, Medrano spent much of his life in Huanuni, site of one of the largest tin mines in the country. He spent much of...
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  • Virginia Tymochtee Dolomite, contemporaneous dolomite formation of Ohio Catavi Formation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of Bolivia Peel Sound...
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    government and COMIBOL distributed five thousand television sets in the mines with extensive payment facilities. According to testimonies from the families...
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    Capinota Province Caranavi Carangas Province Carrasco Province (Bolivia) Catavi Cercado Province (Beni) Cercado Province (Cochabamba) Cercado Province (Oruro)...
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    workers. In 1949, a station began broadcasting in the mining district of Catavi. During the next 15 years, other districts followed; they bought the equipment...
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    Believe It or Not! Striking Bolivian tin miners in Catavi rioted when Army troops moved in to operate the mines, resulting in 52 deaths. Born: Martin Kelner...
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