Word: ruralism
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...plaza, and the Paseo de la Reforma, its principal avenue, where they have been living for weeks under pup tents and sprawling tarpaulins. "We'll stay here as long as it takes to get López Obrador declared the winner," says Norma Cruz, 48, a poor housewife from the rural southern state of Oaxaca who has been camping with her husband and four children in the Zócalo for almost a month. "This is the only way left to take on the monopolies of economic power in Mexico...
...rode a dilapidated old bus from Kisumu, the provincial capital, 60 miles away. As they lurched along dirt roads, a couple of chickens nestled in Obama's lap and mothers passed wet babies back and forth to the two young visitors. Obama spent his time in Kogelo, a small rural village where people grow maize and raise cows, getting to know his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama and wandering the fields and dirt lanes his late father had walked as a boy and had returned to after separating from Obama's mother, an American, when their son was just...
...swing through western Kenya, a mostly rural area along the shores of Lake Victoria, Obama and his wife, Michelle, were both tested for HIV, a powerful statement in a country whose leaders often talk about the need for regular testing but rarely lead the way. "You need to know your status," Obama told a surging crowd of hundreds of locals. "If a U.S. Senator can get tested and his wife can get tested, then everybody in this crowd can get tested. Everybody in this city can get tested." "It is good he did this, it shows people how important...
...June, the local police announced that he was being held in prison on charges of damaging property and organizing a mob to disturb traffic. High-profile lawyers in Beijing flocked to his defense, calling the charges trumped-up. Meanwhile, the international profile of a blind man from rural China was steadily growing. TIME had named Chen to its annual list of 100 influential people. The U.S. State Department called for his release. Chen's supporters hoped the global attention would help free...
...launch any new attacks on Lebanon. For the moment Hizballah looks content to focus on what it calls the "jihad for reconstruction." The organization put up banners throughout the country proclaiming its "Divine Victory" over Israel as its officials throw themselves into helping refugees and rebuilding urban neighborhoods and rural villages. Hizballah is busy handing out $10,000-to-$12,000 packets of cash to Lebanese whose homes were destroyed or severely damaged...