ABSTRACT
The Cerro de Pasco Corporation's investments in Peru at the turn of the twentieth century had momentous and far-reaching consequences. Peru was an anomaly in South America because until 1968 the state played little direct role in production. Regional norms virtually mandated Peruvian nationalization of its extractive industries. The longest and most militant strikes occurred in the Ceiro de Pasco Corporation and among the strikers' demands was the nationalization of the company. As Cerro, W. R. Grace and Company, the International Petroleum Company, and other foreign firms established production operations in Peru they forged alliances with the Peruvian elite. The military coup of 1968, which brought to power the Armed Forces under the leadership of President Juan Velasco Alvarado, marked the culmination of Peru's bourgeois revolution. The mining sector more than any other shows the complexities of the Peruvian Revolution.
