| Go to the library and do some research on haciendas in Bolivia, debt slaves and links to La Esperanza. |
| Those in control of their haciendas, called hacendados, treated people on their lands by a system known in the Sierra as the huasipungo. |
| In many cases, the owners of haciendas in the region do not have high incomes and their haciendas operate with inexpensive indigenous labour. |
| However, there are still employers living in haciendas in the Bolivian Chaco region who deny entry to those doctors. |
| We drove on one hill and saw sprawling haciendas, with very high walls enclosing them and enormous gateways. |
| Most of these worked as domestics and laborers in urban areas, although some toiled on rural farms and haciendas. |
