hacienda
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A lawyer educated in Britain and France, she has impressed visiting U.S. officials over elaborate dinners at a restored coffee hacienda in Caracas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
While Moreno-Garcia's book mentions "importing hacienda workers from China. I have not read the book, and do not know whether this would be considered 'negative.'"
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024
Word that the gated, four-bedroom hacienda at the end of a cul-de-sac was slated to be torn town sparked expressions of outrage on social media, the Times reported.
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2023
Shortly after seeing his work in Lima, a Mexican mining businessman hired him to create something for his hacienda.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
They brought a gust of freshness and vitality to the oppressed atmosphere of the hacienda.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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This is the “old California” image that caught the nation’s fancy: haciendas, grandees in silver- and gold-trimmed clothes, riding costly horses and betting fortunes on a card.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2021
Dozens of the sisal haciendas outside Mérida have been renovated as resorts.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2019
If they did not own mines themselves, leading colonists raised these products, as well as sugar and tobacco, on large landed estates called haciendas.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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The mines supported sprawling haciendas, estates housing bosses and business operations.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
Tres Marias was one of the last haciendas in the South to be expropriated under the agrarian reform.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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Mexico - Introductory
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