Retin

Japanese: レチン

A Bolivian labor leader. Born to Lebanese immigrants, he became a worker in a tin mine owned by Patiño, the world's largest tin magnate. In Bolivia, tin miners, who make up 1% of the population, produce more than 90% of the total export value, and the mining union had great political influence, but it was dominated by the MNR (Nationalist Revolutionary Movement). Lechin became the leader of the mining union in 1945, and played a leading role in the Nationalist Revolution of 1952, when Paz Estensso, supported by the MNR, became president. He became chairman of the Bolivian General Confederation of Labor (COB), and was elected vice president of the Siles Suazo government that was established in 1956, where he advocated rapprochement with the Soviet Union. In 1964, he formed the left-wing National Revolutionary Party to oppose Paz Estensso, who was seeking a third term, and ran for president, but was defeated. He supported the military coup that took place in November of that year, but broke with the Barrientos government that had overthrown Paz the following year and went into exile in Chile. He returned to the country briefly, but returned to exile in Chile again in 1967.

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Japanese:

ボリビアの労働運動指導者。レバノン人移民の子として生まれ，世界一のスズ王パティニョの所有するスズ鉱山の労働者となった。ボリビアでは人口の１％にあたるスズ鉱山労働者が総輸出額の90％以上を生産しており，鉱山労働組合は政治的に大きな影響力をもっていたが，その組合を支配していたのはMNR（民族主義的革命運動）であった。レチンは1945年鉱山労働組合の指導者となり，1952年の民族主義革命でMNRの推すパス・エステンソロが大統領に就任するのに指導的な役割を果たした。ボリビア労働総同盟（COB）の委員長に就任し，1956年に成立したシレス・スアソ政権の副大統領に選ばれ，対ソ接近を主張した。1964年，３選をめざすパス・エステンソロに対抗して左翼国民革命党を結成，大統領選に立候補したが敗れた。同年11月に起きた軍事クーデタを支持したが，パスを倒したバリエントス政権とも翌年決裂してチリに亡命。一時帰国したものの，1967年再びチリに亡命した。

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