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campesino
[ kahm-pe-see-naw; English kam-puh-see-noh ]
noun
- (in Latin America) a peasant or farmer.
Example Sentences
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.
Joaqu铆n 鈥淓l Chapo鈥 Guzm谩n 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鈥檚 hard to find any kind of social mobility if you鈥檙e an impoverished campesino.
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.
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 鈥淶oot Suit鈥 to all of it.
鈥淭hey鈥檙e the ones that have to live in tomorrow鈥檚 world. And all these old people that are corrupt, that are going to die tomorrow anyway, they鈥檙e no longer invested. It has to be the young people. Teatro Campesino was born with teenagers. I was 25 years old but other members were 18 and 19, with great energy taking on the world.鈥
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