Word: haciendado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gaudy life that spans the Revolution. He remembers himself as a barefoot boy in Veracruz blasting the face off a frock-coated oppressor with a shotgun; as a fugitive in Sonora; as a liberator on horseback defeating the federal artillery. He takes a hacienda for the people and the haciendado's daughter for himself. He becomes a general, begins to enrich himself. The betrayals are multiple, and by the time Fuentes lets his old renegade die, impotent for all his mines, hotels, real estate and 15 million Yankee dollars in European banks, he has all but danced with rage...
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