latifundio
noun
a great estate of Latin America or Spain.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Pressure has been growing against the latifundios ever since Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata raised his famous war cry of "land and liberty" in 1910.
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