campesino

[kahm-pe-see-naw, kam-puh-see-noh]

noun

Spanish.

plural

campesinos 

1. (in Latin America) a peasant or farmer.

Example Sentences

"This is an energy drain like I've never seen," said Mr Harris, who is also chief financial officer of Cafe Campesino, one of the 23 roasteries that own Cooperative Coffees.

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Rizo Lopez has recalled nearly 60 products, most of which are Mexican cheeses and cremas under the brand names Tio Francisco, Rizo Bros, Casa Cardenas and Campesino.

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Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and Pablo Escobar are viewed by a lot of people as Robin Hood-esque figures who, despite the odds, have enriched themselves and become empowered in a system where it’s hard to find any kind of social mobility if you’re an impoverished campesino.

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On an early spring day, Valdez is kicking it at the headquarters of El Teatro Campesino, the irreverent performance troupe that he and a scrappy group of Mexican American fieldhands dreamed into being out of the social turbulence of the 1960s.

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An indelible throughline links El Pachuco to the Jaguar Knight; the Central Valley farmworker to the urban Chicano; El Teatro Campesino to the Mark Taper Forum; and “Zoot Suit” to all of it.

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