hacenderos

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He immediately rewarded the hacenderos by including the Sugar Quota in the Parity Amendment, via the Laurel-Langley Agreement wherein the U.S. agreed to buy sugar from the Philippines at a price remarkably higher than the world market.

Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose 2009
By way of closing, I leave you with this anecdote from the book "Clash of Spirits" of how hacenderos in the past used their hacienda workers 'belief in the spirit dungan to exercise better control over them:

Bisaya Bloggers Oliver M. Mendoza 2008