campesino
Americannoun
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campesinos
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An accountant and leader of a campesino association by day, he spent evenings and weekends working on a hillside plot in Anta where corn, wheat and quinoa grew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
So for the next couple of weeks, De Leon stayed indoors as her campesino parents hatched a plan to save her life.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2018
With his hair wet and slicked down like Carlos’s, the campesino in the picture looked too much like Carlos for his comfort.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015
The students, who are in their late teens and early twenties, tend to come from poor, indigenous campesino families.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2014
Every day I go out, my mouth drops open like the campesino in the joke.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Chávez “loved his people, protected us campesinos, protected the poor,” she explained.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026
He’s taking advantage of “the campesinos — the farmworkers,” said activist Alicia Espinoza, a Moreno Valley resident who has helped organize some of Ochoa’s accusers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Those inequalities were on vivid display this month at a roadblock near Cusco, where a group of campesinos sat vigil for hours over a roadblock of tires, tree trunks and boulders.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
The Bolivian recruits resented taking orders from the battle-hardened Cubans, and government propaganda sowed fear of the foreign interlopers among the campesinos.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2017
"Yoyo climbing into an old camioneta with all the campesinos and their fighting cocks and their goats and their pigs!"
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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