Word: campesinos
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...paddyfield far out in the Dominican countryside, a bare-chested campesino whipped his straining oxen. "Go, you lovelies!" he cried. "Get up, you bastards!" Across the rich corn and platano fields of the Cibao Valley, fair-skinned, barefoot women toted gourds from roadside fountains to their thatched shacks, while nearby mounds of rice lay drying in the sun. In the mountains to the north, a grizzled farmer, Vicente Santiago, 65, worried his head over his ten children, his ten hens, his three acres of coffee, platano and corn-and little else. If there was trouble in Santo Domingo...
...with the Program. To foreign investors, Frei offers lower taxes and other inducements for expanding production; to the campesino, land reform; to slum dwellers, state-financed housing; to all taxpayers, an overhaul of the federal bureaucracy and a more efficient use of government funds. His plan to "Chileanize" the copper industry is typical of his give and take. Once Congress approves, the government will acquire a 25% interest in two new U.S. copper ventures and buy a 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper...
...extra passenger." The flying is still often on a wing and a prayer. A few Latin American airlines have jets and turboprops. But most of them make do with aged DC-3s and hand-me-down DC-6s and Constellations, rigged to haul everything from cattle to campesino settlers on colonization projects...
...tbol often seems more important to Latin Americans than birth, marriage and death. It is the mania that lifts a campesino from the daily treadmill, that causes a President to put aside affairs of state and listen to a play-by play broadcast, that brings an entire city to a standstill on the afternoon of an important match. "They don't think it's a game. They think it's a war down there." says William Cox, president of the International Soccer League. And in a war it's not how you play the game...
...village of La Morita, 2,000 shirt-sleeved peasants and their families awaited the Kennedys. The Venezuelan government is building farm homes for these campesinos. The Betancourts and the Kennedys drove up to the project, where 87 units have already been constructed, and in symbolic ceremony, each of the Betancourts and Kennedys presented a land title to a campesino. Then, in a speech translated sentence by sentence, President Kennedy said: "We will be more than good neighbors. We will be partners in building a better life for our peoples." Jacqueline Kennedy also made a speech, but she needed no interpreter...