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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.
JoaquĂn âEl Chapoâ GuzmĂĄn 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 itâs hard to find any kind of social mobility if youâre 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 âZoot Suitâ to all of it.
âTheyâre the ones that have to live in tomorrowâs world. And all these old people that are corrupt, that are going to die tomorrow anyway, theyâre 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.â
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