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
The rebels’ final push to victory would take them right past the front door of Cardenas’ three-quarter-acre hacienda.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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
He had acquired the concessions for other mines, was exporting fruit to foreign countries, had founded a construction firm, and Tres Marias, which had greatly expanded, was now the best hacienda in the area.
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
Those often evolved into the even larger haciendas, the size of whole states back in Europe.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
He also gives tours of the town and takes people on guided hikes, bike trips or drives to basalt cliffs, waterfalls, haciendas, hamlets and vistas.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
During their stay, they visited Mayan ruins and old haciendas and got a taste of local food and culture.
From Forbes ● Sep. 10, 2014
I rode out to inspect my lands, paid a few visits to the neighboring haciendas, kept my eye on the tenants.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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