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Huerta

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[wer-tuh, wer-tah] / ˈwɛr tə, ˈwɛr tɑ /

noun

  1. Victoriano 1854–1916, Mexican general: provisional president of Mexico 1913–14.


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“Of course, once they got here and they put them in the fields, that is not what they knew how to do or wanted to do,” Huerta said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

“It’s devastating, the amount of cruelty that we’re seeing ... and a lot of the people that are in detention centers are workers,” Huerta said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

It was developed with guidance from an advisory board that included Huerta, academics and other experts on immigration history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Translated in 2014 by Frank Wynne as “Liveforever,” the novel is narrated by María del Carmen Huerta, a well-off young woman from Cali who is sucked into the city’s frenetic world of musical subcultures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

In order to pacify the people, Pedro Lopez ordered his brother-in-law, the bishop, to quit the town, and he repaired to the Huerta del Rey, a country-house in the environs.

From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells

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