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... as a promising export commodity. A rapid rise in oil production between 1952 and 1956, fueled by large state investments, seemed to bode well for the future development of the industry by Bolivia's state oil company, Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB). Grand hopes were soon dashed, however...

... the creation of the state oil enterprise Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), the 1937 nationalization of Standard Oil, the sector's halting progress in the 1940s, and the major expansion of production by the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario government following the 1952 revolution...

... economic pressures and political attacks. The Bolivian expropriation of Gulf Oil in 1969 is generally viewed as a reflection of domestic political instability, but Philip argues that it was really the result of Gulf ’s rivalry with the state company (YPFB) and of military nationalism. The Ecuadorian state...

... department files. 54. See daily coverage in Prensa Libre in August 1977 and correspondence and agreements between SEMAPA and Vinto communities in SEMAPA's legal department files. 53. “YPFB considerará denuncias de los pobladores de Vinto,” Prensa Libre (Cochabamba), 26 Aug. 1977, p. 4...

... as Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) to handle the Standard plants and wells and to operate as a state monopoly in oil production. 84 But seemingly nothing concrete was happening, and many crucial leaders were becoming impatient with the lack of true vitality in the government...