finca
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“We’ve been looking for our finca for how long now?”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2021
In the first chapter, Basch and Berry are staying at their Costa Rican finca, and Basch requires stitches from a Tica physician.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2019
As Mary recounts in her memoir, Castro personally came to the finca and vowed to help.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2018
Stern called the finca row just one example of Becker’s inability to cope with the millions he had earned.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2017
“Bah! A otro perro con ese hueso. That finca doesn’t belong to Lalao. That man doesn’t own the hole to lay his corpse in.”
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
During his time in office, Arbenz emerged as the owner of a $3,000,000 cotton plantation; his Interior Minister turned into a gentleman-farmer with two coffee fincas; another pal acquired two mansions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of his 50-odd cattle ranches and 45 coffee fincas he got by "smart buying."
From Time Magazine Archive
However, a reasonable amount of capital in the beginning is necessary and many investors possessing the capital prefer to buy fincas or plantations that are already producing.
From Guatemala, the country of the future by Charles M. Pepper
Many of them were certainly away upon their fields and ranches, scattered through the mountains, and working fincas for wealthy landowners.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
The male indians of Tuxtla are, in large part, employed in contract labor on fincas at a distance from the town.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
