Word: campesinos
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Prayer parodies also seem to be in vogue in Castro's Cuba. Last week Radio Progreso in Havana broadcast an interview with a campesino named Apolinar Hernandez, 60, who out of gratitude for his new life since the glorious revolution is teaching his children a prayer of thanksgiving to the bearded Maximum Leader...
...army's roundup of weapons should make the life of an Acapulco cop somewhat easier. The arms collection has already yielded more than 3,000 assorted rifles, pistols and machine guns. There is obviously a long way to go. In the middle of the roundup, two campesinos smashed their way into the home of Acapulco's assistant police chief and began shooting up the place. During a bloody exchange of fire, one campesino was killed on the spot, and the other was lucky-or unfortunate-enough to end up a prisoner in the Acapulco jail...
...reaching much of Mexico's unlettered population. Half of its 44 million people are land-tilling peasants. There are more than 50,000 communities with a population of less than 100-many of them accessible only by all but impassable dirt roads. But the isolation of the campesino is slowly breaking down. Fathers urge their sons to get some basic schooling so that they can land jobs in the nation's expanding industries and urban areas. Thus when a school trailer arrives in a village for its 31-month stay, it becomes a popular social center. The young...
...Institutional Revolutionary Party. But P.R.I, and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz have had a scattershot of troubles of late. Within the past 18 months, Diaz Ordaz has had to use paratroopers to quell student strikes on three campuses and militia to put down several rural protests over food prices and campesino grievances. Outside the glittering, wealthy cities live nearly half the people, scratching out incomes that average less than $16 per family each month...
...PERU Working with the National Agrarian Reform and Cooperation Popular Volunteers will work with mestizo patrons to understand the campesino (rural peasant) and prepare the campesino for entry into social and economic life when he gets his own land. Specialists will work with Cooperation Popular in pertinent self-help projects...