Word: hacienda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Mexico City, Castro, called on Spanish Colonel Alberto Bayo, onetime fighter against Franco. Said Castro: "You know all about guerrillas. You will teach us." Bayo sold his furniture factory, rented a big hacienda in the shadow of the volcano Popocatepetl, and taught hit-and-run warfare to 80-odd irregulars assembled by Castro...
...Antilles"; Thomas Jefferson said: "We must have Cuba." But while other Spanish colonies rebelled, Cuba reveled in its reputation as Spain's "Ever Faithful Isle." Not until 1868 did revolution start. A planter named Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, crying "Freedom or Death," burned his hacienda near the town of Yara, freed his slaves and began a 30-year struggle. Máximo ("The Fox") Gómez and Antonio ("The Lion") Maceo rallied 26,000 Cubans to the "Grito de Yara [Cry of Yara]" and fought a hit-and-run war. In 1878 the Spaniards offered political...
...barefoot, who live in Mexico's 2,000,000 adobe hovels, who never spend more than a few pesos from the time they are born until they die. The upper class, socially defined, consists of between 300 and 500 families who are the remnants of the old Spanish hacienda-owning aristocracy. Across the gulf between rich and poor stretches the growing middle class, a healthy 9,000,000 strong, born of industry and fed by solid paychecks and hope. It is so new and changing that Mexicans vie to define it. A man enters the middle class-according...
Nelson Rockefeller owns three farms in Venezuela and will vacation in his hilltop hacienda-a white stucco colonial house with red tile roof built around a swimming pool-at La Mona, a 1,200-acre spread of potato and cattle land 90 miles southwest of Caracas. His farms are no mere rich man's fancy. Originally developed by the International Basic Economy Corp. (IBEC) that he founded to invest in Latin American development, the first farm lost so much money in a try at large-scale agriculture that Rockefeller bought it from IBEC, ran it himself...
...dash from one Havana club to another (he belongs to five) in a snappy Porsche, play golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place is called "Yemaya," an Afro-Cuban voodoo word for virgin; Hedges likes the name so well that he also gave...