| The consumption of homemade tortillas is a source of pride for campesinos and campesinas alike. |
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| With most campesinos content with this Breughelian subsistence, Peru ends up importing 70 percent of its corn, sugar, potatoes, and rice. |
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| And without the rivers, the campesinos could not irrigate the tiny corn patches that fed their families. |
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| Long-promised programs to help 20 million campesinos switch to export crops never materialized. |
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| Yet throughout the country campesinos making land claims were met with hostility, threats and violence. |
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| Nonetheless, many of the campesinos in rural Mexico who farm basic foodstuffs in the current environment are doing so at higher social costs. |
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| Two thousand campesinos fought there last year under the pacifying influence of police armed with bullwhips and tear gas. |
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| There is little doubt then that the increasingly active campesinos and Zapatistas will not see their concerns dealt with any time soon. |
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| Until recently, the great majority of corn consumed in Mexico was produced by Mexican farmers, or campesinos. |
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| The campesinos set up camp in front of the Governor's palace and at times blocked streets to call attention to their demands. |
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| But the campesinos in the market, the indigenous Quechuas and Aymaras, stare right through me. |
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| It is made abundantly clear to campesinos out in the countryside that to grow coca is against the law. |
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| In this unclear scenario, we reiterate our commitment to the campesinos and native peoples of Southern Bolivia. |
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| The radio team sought out new formats for their broadcasts, e.g. newscasts geared to Aymara campesinos, and radio series such as the radionovela. |
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| Most are smallholder farmers who call themselves campesinos. |
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| They are there, threatening campesinos that they must plant coca or they will die. |
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| In the south of the country, there were many tomas between November 1970 and April 1971, resulting in confrontations between farmers, campesinos and Mapuches. |
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| It is an example of re-indigenization in which campesinos assume their historic identity. |
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| These Central American immigrants, including university students, teachers, clergy, and campesinos, came from all classes and political persuasions. |
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| He's already trying to spend as little time as possible in the Puerto Asis area, even though he has invested more than five years of effort in organizing campesinos there. |
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| Corn is the staple of the Mexican diet, it is the crop most campesinos grow, and it has never before happened that Mexico could not produce enough for its own needs. |
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| In Ecuador, campesinos, native organizations, and workers recently elected the country's first indigenous President, Lucio Gutierrez, over the nation's richest man. |
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| In addition, the campesinos involved in this crop used a system of production based on annual cutting and burning of new forest areas. |
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| Most victims were campesinos or community leaders who were taken from their home or workplace and killed elsewhere, the report said. |
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| Instead of treating the campesinos as passive beneficiaries, they were to be active protagonists. |
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| He requested clarification of the legal design of the State party's domestic legislation which referred to both campesinos and indigenous people. |
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| It is this very sensitive issue that has galvanized widespread resistance from previously loyal campesinos. |
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| We stood in line with the campesinos, machateros, trabajadores, and their chickens and dogs, bought our tickets, then took our seats in the nearly empty first class coach. |
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| All night, squads of dressed-up campesinos trotted through town, the men strumming charangos, the women shrilling praise-songs to whichever roadless hamlet they'd walked from. |
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| The muralists' vibrant brush strokes of color and form engage the hearts and soul of both the nonliterate campesinos and urban elites. |
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| In the past 25 years, more than 100 politically outspoken campesinos have also been murdered in the aforementioned departments. |
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| The campesinos were happy that we had an expert in tow. |
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| The new brigade's theatre of operations is one of FARC's oldest, most fiercely defended strongholds, where the guerrillas know the terrain and are in regular contact with many of the local campesinos. |
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| The highest fertility and mortality rates are found in rural areas, where large proportions of the population are campesinos and ethnic groups living in what are clearly disadvantaged conditions. |
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| In Bolivia, the unprecedented speed with which the international community moved to ensure investigations into the killing of 19 campesinos in September raised hopes that those responsible would be brought to justice. |
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| In such a way we transform the life produced by our campesinos, the fruit of their labour, into delicious pulp and juice for the delight of our society. |
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| However, institutional implementation, legislative and case-law development and the very appropriation of reforms by indigenous peoples and campesinos themselves have been unequal in the region. |
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| Two types of campesino patrol were formed in Peru: in the northern departments of Cajamarca and Piura, the campesinos arranged to defend themselves without weapons, mainly against cattle theft. |
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| He created an office for the defense of human rights. He opened the doors of the churches to give refuge to the campesinos fleeing the persecution in the countryside. |
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| Soon the two campesinos drop their weapons and decide not to fight each other. |
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