| Most of these worked as domestics and laborers in urban areas, although some toiled on rural farms and haciendas. |
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| We drove on one hill and saw sprawling haciendas, with very high walls enclosing them and enormous gateways. |
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| Those in control of their haciendas, called hacendados, treated people on their lands by a system known in the Sierra as the huasipungo. |
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| However, there are still employers living in haciendas in the Bolivian Chaco region who deny entry to those doctors. |
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| Access roads in Alto Parapetí cross the haciendas, which means that the hacienda owners can control the use of them. |
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| Go to the library and do some research on haciendas in Bolivia, debt slaves and links to La Esperanza. |
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| In extreme cases single ranches, known as haciendas, hold up to 300 families in dept slavery. |
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| In many cases, the owners of haciendas in the region do not have high incomes and their haciendas operate with inexpensive indigenous labour. |
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| School infrastructure in the area is deficient and, as schools are often private and operated within haciendas, landowners may take children out of school and put them to work. |
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| A dream décor for the siting of haciendas, the large rural estates which are the fruit of the Hispanic and evangelist influence on the lands conquered in the XVIth century by the conquistadors. |
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| The indigenous peoples were made peons on the haciendas, they were yoked to the wagons of civilizations, and they were enslaved in their own land. |
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| Resguardos were expropriated and indigenous peoples in many areas of Colombia were reduced to colonizers in remote frontier lands, or peons forced to work on the large farms or haciendas being established at the time. |
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| Part of the problem stems from the very small number of Government labour inspectors, lack of resources to carry out inspections, and the barriers that inspectors encounter if they try to enter the haciendas. |
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| The main buildings were built in the style of the typical haciendas or country estates of Seville. Construction work began in 1722 and the press in the old stone mill remains to this day. |
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| This was without a doubt the most important of all the nearby haciendas, and is today the most beautiful, a fact which its many visitors attest to year after year. |
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| It is thus made obvious that there is a relationship between the poor supply of innovation in the process of panela production and the lack of interest of great landowners to modernize their haciendas. |
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| Faced by this situation, landowners either tend to leave the region, investing their capital in elsewhere, or to convert their haciendas into extensive cattle ranches. |
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| The mission was informed, for example, that the State had not built schools, health centres or public housing for Guaraní communities inside the haciendas because it is prohibited to use public funds on private property. |
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| The villa concept lived and lives on in the haciendas of Latin America and the estancias of Brazil and Argentina. |
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| It should be considered that the final will of indigenous peoples who are subjected to forced labour may not be to become hired workers in the haciendas, but to recover their land and resources. |
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| The minimum wage is low, even more so if wages are received in kind, with product prices set arbitrarily and with no form of supervision, as is reportedly the case in numerous haciendas in the Chaco. |
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| The Cacao Route consists of various cacao haciendas, where guides give lessons on how the plant is cultivated and the cacao bean is harvested, then processed into chocolate. |
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