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
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
With five bedrooms, a Jacuzzi and a grand entryway capped by a cupola, the hacienda stood out from the crumbling adobe buildings nearby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
One day, Dr. Pérez picked us up at our hotel in his battered Russian sedan and we drove to the hacienda, in a place called Santiago de las Vegas.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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They haven’t the scaled-down pretensions of two-bedroom mock-Spanish haciendas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2021
Like the other haciendas in the area it was once part of a henequen ranch.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 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
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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Mexico - Introductory
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