Word: campesino
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...some of the Senate's key guest-worker provisions are impractical at best. That includes the requirement that after two years working in the U.S., migrants must return to their home countries for a year before they can renew their status and come back to the States. No Mexican campesino I've ever met follows that kind of truncated migrant schedule. If he's not allowed to renew his two-year guest-worker stint immediately, he'll simply make another illegal crossing - and return to the same undocumented shadows we were trying to lure...
Growing the coca plant is not necessarily the choice of the campesino farmers in Colombia; contrary to the hard-lined beliefs of the U.S., farmers are often forced to change their food crops to the incredibly lucrative yield of soon-to-be cocaine. Guerilla groups have complete control over the Colombian farmland and can easily hold a gun to the head of a powerless campesino, demanding that he grow the volatile crop. Besides the violent threats of the guerillas, many campesinos have no practical option but to grow coca, for they are among the poorest people in the world. Living...
...20th century artists have been as popular in their own societies. None is more relevant to the debate over "indigenous," or "national," art language as against "international style." A Marxist who read little Marx, he found a deep well of pictorial eloquence in the traditions and miseries of the campesino. "For the first time in the history of art," Rivera claimed, "Mexican mural painting made the masses the hero of monumental...
...driven rain fell. Oscar, our driver, skillfully maneuvered the bus along winding mountain roads. Armed peasants waved as we passed, and we questioned the kind of existence where people are forced to shoulder rifles while tending their fields and cattles. The booming voice of our escort--a campesino--explained that the bridge we were crossing had been blown-up five times by counter-revolutionaries...
...hill, 13 peasants tell me they are disappointed that the Sandinistas have not met promises for better economic conditions, and in fact have allowed prices to rocket and wages to stagnate. "A bag of detergent costs ten times more than it did during the dictatorship," complains one barefoot campesino. Says another: "It is like that for everything. We were better off under Somoza...