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  2. Hacienda - Wikipedia

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    Hacienda Lealtad is a working coffee hacienda which used slave labor in the 19th century, located in Lares, Puerto Rico. [1]A hacienda (UK: / ˌ h æ s i ˈ ɛ n d ə / HASS-ee-EN-də or US: / ˌ h ɑː s i ˈ ɛ n d ə / HAH-see-EN-də; Spanish: or ) is an estate (or finca), similar to a Roman latifundium, in Spain and the former Spanish Empire.

  3. Land reform in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Hacienda owners were reluctant to lease lands to Indians for fear that they would then claim land as part of the fundo legal for a newly established community. [46] Abad y Queipo concluded "The indivisibility of haciendas, the difficulty in managing them, the lack of property among the people, has produced and continues to produce deplorable ...

  4. Haciendas of Yucatán - Wikipedia

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    Haciendas of Yucatán were agricultural organizations that emerged primarily in the 18th century. They had a late onset in Yucatán compared with the rest of Mexico because of geographical, ecological and economical reasons, particularly the poor quality of the soil and lack of water to irrigate farms.

  5. José Ramon Fernández (businessman) - Wikipedia

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    The system includes an elaboration (Jamaican) train, conveyor belt, and four evaporators for processing of sugar cane. [1] [3] In a demonstration of his political influence, Fernández convinced the government to divide the municipality of Manati in two and found the new municipality of Barceloneta. This was clearly for his own economic benefit.

  6. Land reform in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Much like Mexico and other Spanish colonies in the Americas, the Spanish settlement in the Philippines revolved around the encomienda system of plantations, known as haciendas. As the 19th century progressed, industrialization and liberalization of trade allowed these encomiendas to expand their cash crops , establishing a strong sugar industry ...

  7. Latifundium - Wikipedia

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    The production system of the latifundia went into crisis between the 1st and 2nd century as the supply of slaves ... (Hacienda)". Jonathan Conning (Hunter College ...

  8. Lázaro Cárdenas - Wikipedia

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    destruction of the hacienda economy and creation of a collective system of ejidos (common lands) under government control; modern secular schools and eradication of the influence of the Catholic Church; and; workers' cooperatives to oppose the excesses of industrial capitalism. [18] [20]

  9. Encomiendas in Peru - Wikipedia

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    In 1721 the Spanish Crown declared the creation of new encomiendas illegal. The number of encomiendas had declined to about 100 by that time but they continued to exist in some areas of Peru until the late 18th century. Encomiendas were replaced by the hacienda system. [10] [29] [28]