Word: campesinos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campesino's resistance to the anti-aftosa cattle slaughter had been tragically bitter. A veterinarian and his seven-man soldier escort had been murdered in Senguio; bands of armed men, threatening violence to cattle-shooters, roamed the states of Guerrero, Michoacán and Zacatecas. Only last week, sanitation workers who had come to disinfect a village in the state of Querètaro were driven out with cries of: "You've killed our cattle, now you can't kill our children...
...campesino's opposition has only grown stouter. He wants oxen for plowing and cows for milk-not pesos, which he is afraid either to put in a bank or keep at home. The fact that his neighbor's cattle are infected with foot-&-mouth disease seems to him a poor reason for shooting his own herd...
Last week, the U.S. and Mexican Governments heeded the campesino's wails. Henceforth only infected animals would be killed. Exposed animals would not have to be sent to market. To curb the disease's spread, the campaigners would rely on strict quarantine and vaccination. Said U.S. Agriculture Under-Secretary Norris Dodd: "Maybe we've been going too fast. Mexico says the impact on her economy is too great...
...best that many an expert could argue was that the new policy would bring greater campesino cooperation. In that case, it would be possible to hold the line and perhaps push it back. Said B. T. Simms, the U.S. Agriculture Department official who has been directing the campaign: "We've got to push it back or it will push us back. Foot-&-mouth disease does not play a tie game...
...like tiger's eyes." Brother Miguel followed Obregón, who liked to stay up talking until 4 in the morning. "He'd never drink himself, but he'd feed us coffee and cognac, talk about fighting ahead or swap the latest filthy stories." Because the campesino's hero, Emiliano Zapata, refused to let Agustín and other newsmen cover his ragged army, and shot up their press train, Agustín sprinted to Vera Cruz to cover the U.S. invasion. Both sides held their fire while he focused under his photographer's black...