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Nonetheless, we lacked a modern historiographical approach to the men that owned the land: the estancieros or hacendados. Though at first Don Diego is a defender of the land-owning hacendados, he later comes to champion the causes of the underprivileged peasants through his alter ego, Zorro (Spanish for fox). Yucatecan hacendados were quick to exploit this by financing and co-opting anarchosyndicalist unions, local leaders, and electoral candidates who opposed the agrarian reform. |
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