Word: haciendas
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When Cuba's ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista, supposedly foresightedly, put up $82,500 in 1957 for a large pink stucco hacienda in Daytona Beach, Fla., many of the locals began speculating about what sort of effect he might have, as a neighbor, upon real estate values. After Batista fled Cuba on New Year's Day, 1959, he wound up in the Madeira Islands, where most of his household has since joined him. Batista has apparently given up hopes of taking up exile in the U.S. soon. Said his secretary: "You can be sure he's trying...
...student of economic sciences, a member of an exclusive club of whisky drinkers, a dancer of the tango, a playboy, a reader of Adam Smith, and a wearer of the arrogant colored vests introduced by Wilde and Disraeli." When he got home, he turned the family hacienda into a lucrative model of science and mechanization, went back to economics as a director of Peru's Reserve Bank, making it into a modern central bank. He dabbled in journalism as holder of controlling interest in a struggling little newspaper called La Prensa. World War II took...
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...