A Mexican Family Empire: The Latifundio of the Sánchez Navarro Family, 1765-1867Perhaps no other institution has had a more significant impact on Latin American history than the large landed estate the hacienda. In Mexico, the latifundio, an estate usually composed of two or more haciendas, dominated the social and economic structure of the country for four hundred years. A Mexican Family Empire is a careful examination of the largest latifundio ever to have existed, not only in Mexico but also in all of Latin America the