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
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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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
If they did not own mines themselves, leading colonists raised these products, as well as sugar and tobacco, on large landed estates called haciendas.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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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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