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
Last summer, the Spanish Colonial-style hacienda was saved by the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
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
Waiting for them in the courtyard of the hacienda were all the tenants, under orders from the foreman, Pedro Segundo Garcia.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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These brief decades were glamorized by a huge bestseller, an 1884 novel called “Ramona,” by Helen Hunt Jackson, who had been a guest at one of the great haciendas.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2021
As in Spain itself, the focus on mines and haciendas discouraged economic diversity and self-sustaining development, and led to a society dominated by a small wealthy elite atop a mass of impoverished laborers.
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
The Spaniards built haciendas, not unlike the ones that dominated the campos of “old” Mexico.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2014
He said, for those willing, there was always work on the coffee haciendas.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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Mexico - Introductory
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