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
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
Those often evolved into the even larger haciendas, the size of whole states back in Europe.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Unlike the Spanish-style haciendas, the Italianate villas, or faux Tudor mansions that populated this neighborhood of film stars, crowds were there to see this paragon of modernism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
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
The Spaniards built haciendas, not unlike the ones that dominated the campos of “old” Mexico.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2014
I’ve worked so well that I’ve already bought up the two neighboring haciendas.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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Mexico - Introductory
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Mexico - Middle School
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Mexico - High School
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