Word: haciendas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...site of Operation Primavera's first strike was Finca la Brasilia (Brazil Ranch), reportedly owned by Alberto Toro, brother-in-law of the notorious coke lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Early last week the raiders descended on Hacienda Napoles, the grandest -- and gaudiest -- of Escobar's several country estates. The helicopters landed to the trumpeting of three caged elephants, part of a private zoo maintained by the drug kingpin. Not found was Escobar, one of the world's most wanted criminals, who has eluded Colombian authorities dozens of times...
...this really new? Was there ever a time without a Mexican spitfire in the movies, a hacienda-style suburb down the road, a Latin crooner singing Cuando Cuando to the stars? And in the past hasn't the U.S. joined the conga line, bought the Trini Lopez album, then moved on heedlessly to something else? It has and it did. But this time the prospects are different. Latin influences that were once just a pinch of spice for most Americans are bidding to become a vital part of the wider culture...
...Taylor's hacienda is around the corner. Zsa Zsa Gabor's cottage is just up the street. Joanna Carson and Robert Stack have their digs within Shih Tzu walking distance. Ah, it will feel so good to be back home again...
...reason is that, as a landowner herself, Aquino holds title to nearly 1000 hectares of land at her family's estate, the Hacienda Luisita. She is more than a simple housewife. She is also an heiress of the powerful Cojuangco clan, and as such faces pressure from within her own family to avoid a land reform program that would destroy its livelihood. Indeed, the pressure led her to reject a trial land reform project at the Hacienda Luisita...
Last February the government announced a multibillion-dollar five-year plan to redistribute the nation's 22 million cultivated acres. (President Aquino's family plantation, the 14,000-acre Hacienda Luisita, would be included.) But it is almost certain that the new Philippine congress, to be elected May 11, will water down the plan. Even then, the program will remain heavily dependent on foreign economic assistance...