Word: peasant
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...military's campaign of violence against political opponents, meanwhile, has been revived with new viciousness. Nowhere is this more evident than the coffee-rich area in the Bourg Mountains, where some 300 soldiers have spent the past four months hunting down peasant supporters of exiled President Aristide. Those who have escaped the region claim the army has conducted a scorched-earth policy in an attempt to deprive Aristide's allies of their food and livelihood. "They took everything we possessed," says Wilna Nelta Joseph, whose home in the town of Petit-Bourg was looted in April. "They left me with...
...figure is the first of the Sibylline crones who would keep turning up in his later work. He does Fauve blotches -- Mediterranean with measles, after Matisse and Derain -- and combines them with elements of the classicizing movement which, in Catalunya, was known as noucentisme (20th century-ism), with "timeless" peasant figures, olive trees and old arches...
Manuel Camacho Solis, the chief negotiator for the Mexican government with peasant rebels in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, resigned after accusing the government of trying to sabotage his efforts to find a settlement with the mostly Mayan Indians. Five days earlier, the rebels rejected the peace settlement he had proposed. The trouble in the peace talks could affect the Mexican presidential election, which will take place...
Conventional wisdom holds that poor women in Mexico City should have more children than their counterparts in the U.S. who have better health care and a higher standard of living. But peasant families tend to have two or three children in Mexico City, while those who immigrate to the U.S. average four or five children. In crowded Mexico City each child imposes steep costs on a family, while in the U.S. welfare payments and other social safety nets buffer those costs. These skewed incentives convey similar signals to poor young women in America's inner cities, who in many cases...
...modern Disney cartoon feature is an adventure of the spirit -- a guided tour through eruptive emotions. The Little Mermaid plunged briskly into the growing pains of a creature that felt as isolated from the shimmering haut monde as any Afghan peasant or Harlem street kid. Beauty and the Beast took a stroll in the woods with a fellow who needed lessons in the civilizing power of love. The Aladdin carpet ride revealed a whole grownup world of pleasures and perils to a young thief who started out in search of only a quick spin with a pretty princess...