Word: campesinos
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...problems of the campesinos are not entirely new. From the start, El Salvador's land redistribution program has suffered from poor administration, insufficient credit lines and corruption. But the election on March 28 of a constituent assembly dominated by right-wing parties has raised fresh concerns. Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, head of the ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and president of the new assembly, vigorously attacked the program during the election campaign, and last week he declared that he favored a "moratorium" on land reforms. Advocates of the program fear that D'Aubuisson will quietly...
...campesino has no idea whether he owns the land or not." Farm leaders fear that the frustrated campesinos may respond by supporting the guerrillas. Warns an official of the Salvadoran Institute...
Though arms and ammunition were scarce everywhere, miners managed to take dynamite from the mining company, and they distributed it carefully to each community. A campesino experienced in guerilla warfare demonstrated the production of grenades using a half stick of dynamite, tin cans, and scraps of metal and glass. Another man showed the group how to make Molotov cocktails, filling glass bottles with gasoline and old rags. These homemade weapons and an occasional rifle left over from the '52 revolution were all the people had to defend themselves. In return for the dynamite, the campesinos agreed to provide food...
Several hundred campesino families were gathered early last week on the dusty veranda of the hilltop plantation house. Dressed in their meager best, they stood respectfully and listened for more than an hour as the man in the short-sleeved guayabera shirt exhorted them to hard work and clean living. The scene looked familiar-an absentee landlord come to survey his patrimony, perhaps. In fact, the speaker was José Antonio Morales Ehrlich, a member of El Salvador's ruling junta and head of the country's far-reaching land-reform program. The campesinos represented 14 new cooperative...
...some of your readers. Also, some of the 34 "Indian peasants" to whom you refer, including the occupiers' leadership, were in fact students from our national university (Universidad de San Carlos) who, on this and other occasions, have sought to further their own political objectives by cynically exploiting campesino grievances. In panic or by design, one of the occupiers threw an incendiary device that ricocheted off a metal window grille, thereby engulfing the room in flames. The ensuing deaths were caused by burning or suffocation, not by police bullets. Who murdered whom...