The great achievement of this period was the eradication of the very large hacienda from the countryside.

The town now known as Zihuatanejo was simply a very small fishing village, surrounded by large haciendas.

This group exerted more freedom than their fellow companions on large haciendas and in private households.

He acquired a large hacienda and at the same time continued gambling.

Many of the tequila-making facilities are located on large haciendas which date back as far as the 18th century.

With the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores the valley was divided into two large haciendas.

This area has large haciendas which use high technology irrigation systems for crops such as barley and wheat.

He criticized the large haciendas of the friars while so many peasants were landless.

There were mainly large haciendas and some scattered houses where poor farmers lived.

The role of the dictatorship would be to parcel out large haciendas to individual, not communal claimants.