Word: ruralism
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...seaports, more irrigation projects. Singh stressed the importance of nationwide improvement in education and health, which will also involve huge amounts of public investment. And if that is not enough, the government is committed to increasing the living standards of the hundreds of millions of Indians in rural areas who live on less than $2 a day, while ameliorating the state of the cities to which many of them are flocking, in a mass urbanization that in human history has been rivaled only by the one now under way in China. (See pictures of India's tempestuous Nehru dynasty...
...Colombia’s political situation, nor does he impose any prevailing moral framework upon the story. Its title—in Spanish, “Los Ejercitos”—refers to all three “sides” of the conflict that blights rural Colombia: the military, the paramilitaries, and the guerrillas. In the violence that comes to engulf San José, it is impossible—and, perhaps, pointless—to distinguish between them. Ismael remembers the recent attack on the local church, “by whichever army it was, whether...
Parker said he encouraged rural villagers to network, trade, travel, get involved with the government, and join the army...
Referring to the rural regions as “medieval,” Parker emphasized the societal disconnect in many of these communities by telling an anecdote about how some Afghans initially believed that American forces were Soviet soldiers, who invaded the country more than two decades...
...Marquez's tour is part of El Salvador's "Route of Peace, a network of rural, war-torn communities trying to rebuild themselves through tourism. Ironically, the project, which can include 15-day-long packages for tour groups, is now funded in part by a $184,000 grant from the U.S., which had helped bankroll El Salvador's right-wing military during the civil war that killed 75,000 people. Unlike U.S. historic battleground sites, with musty replica uniforms, powderhorns and recitals of textbook war accounts, here the guides are those that did the fighting. "This is guerrilla tourism," Chica...