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
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By horseback and on foot, 300 Colombian peasants in ponchos and floppy felt hats trekked through the jungles and coffee fincas to a settlement in the Andean backlands 25 miles outside Bogot�.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Tacho has the country's best cattle land, the best coffee fincas; he has cut himself in on the mines, transport, lumber�everything except a few scattered items like General Pasos' textile mill.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some of his 50-odd cattle ranches and 45 coffee fincas he got by "smart buying."
From Time Magazine Archive
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But go back now to your fincas and your fishing, to your little stores and your humble homes, firmly resolving never to think a bad thought, whether about yourself or your neighbor.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis