Institution
International Petroleum Company
The International Petroleum Company was a Canadian-registered subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey that controlled the La Brea y Pariñas oilfields in north-western Peru. Disputes over its legal title and taxes became a national issue, and a scandal over a 1968 agreement with Fernando Belaúnde's government, including a missing page of the contract, provided a pretext for Juan Velasco Alvarado's coup. Velasco nationalised its holdings days later, in October 1968.
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