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
When the sun was directly overhead and everyone was ready to have lunch, Alfonso emerged from his big white hacienda with its red tile roof and sauntered by, checking on the progress.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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Like the other haciendas in the area it was once part of a henequen ranch.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2019
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 landscape was what drew people to Utuado, where coffee haciendas were built by “black gold” in the 19th century, funding the island’s first electric light system run by a hydraulic power plant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2017
The mines supported sprawling haciendas, estates housing bosses and business operations.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
Nor was she the only one; the tenants at Tres Marias and many peasants from haciendas across the region also waited for him.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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