Word: haciendas
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Juan Perón went right on using food as an instrument of policy. Peru, dependent on Argentina for its meat, got some 40 tons last month, and Lima shoppers spent hours hacienda cola (sweating out the line) outside butcher shops. Last week, as a result of Argentine manipulations, the wheat stocks were down to a thin ten days' supply when the U.S. freighter Bert Williams brought in a timely 7,900 tons. Perón was after Peruvian oil, rubber, cotton-and an Argentina-oriented Peru...
Suddenly the soldiers struck. Aided by U.S. Treasury Department detectives, they arrested ten growers and two officials on a Sinaloa hacienda. Then they flailed and rooted up the fields of illicit poppies...
...road to Popayan, the abductors of President Lopez abruptly turned around, rattled back through Pasto, turned off on a mule trail. They had heard that the Popayan soldiers were loyal. At 5 p.m. the party stopped for the night at the hacienda of a couple of old-line, embarrassed Conservatives. Liberal President Lopez and son were agreeably entertained...
...noon next day a captain turned up at the hacienda with half the Pasto garrison. He slipped the President a gun, confided that he was about to release him. The soldiers thought the captain was simply taking over the prisoners. After lunch everybody set out again...
Owner of a big hacienda called "Chiclin," and once owner of La Crénica, the Vice President once kept three desks in his enormous office. His countrymen report that a caller might be addressed as follows: "Have you, Sir, come to see His Excellency, Rafael Larco Herrera, Vice President of Peru? Or have you come to see Señior Larco Herrera, Owner and Publisher of La Crénica? Or perhaps you have come to see Don Rafael Larco Herrera, Director and General Manager of Hacienda Chiclin." According to the answer, he would sit down...