Word: estanciero
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...measure their landed wealth in Latin America, no class ever exhibited such fabled riches as Argentina's cattle barons. On the grassy pampas stretching south, west and north from Buenos Aires, the more affluent estanciero could once gallop for days without finding the end of his land. His animals numbered in the tens of thousands, and people across the world wistfully spoke of being "as rich as an Argentine...
...trip in the 1920s, the four sons of one family brought home a complete French brothel plus a year's supply of champagne and páté de foie gras-and in case that palled, they also brought 100 Ibs. of opium. Another turn-of-the-century estanciero in Patagonia got his kicks by staging Indian hunts with his chums; well-buttressed by booze, they rode out in parties of a dozen or so to slaughter the nomadic tribesmen who shared their pampas, and once had a grand day massacring an entire tribe they cornered in a seaside...
...habits, generally sees his family for one meal a day-supper-and often spends his evenings driving to a nearby town to hear a lecture on modern farming methods. There may be a TV set on the place, but the gauchos are the ones who watch it. Says one estanciero, "TV is the difference between keeping your best men and losing them to the big city...
Only the snobbish, opulent, Paris-loving aristocracy of Argentina could have produced Victoria Ocampo. Her wealth is based on the feudal holdings of her estanciero ancestors. She was educated in Paris, writes in French, then translates into Spanish. She can quote Racine by the yard...
...from the Chilly South. Juan Perón did not come from the aristocratic estanciero (big rancher) class, which has long dominated Argentina's politics and social life. He was born and brought up on his father's middle-sized ranch in the cold, windswept south-Argentina's Wild West. His early life reads like a Montana boyhood. He learned to ride almost before he could walk. For recreation he fought with the children of the hired gauchos, hunted wild turkeys on the southern pampas...
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