Its concrete tower blocks were crumbling, the peasant housing like slums, and the infrastructure chronically rundown.
Rodriguez lamented the loss of life, but said the peasant leaders did not order the attack on police.
When the peasant confronts the priest, the holy man insists that he was simply eating dinner with the woman.
And even if the peasant wins his point, says Ms Briones, poverty may still make many sell their land.
This idea is rooted in the peasant habit of swilling the mouth out with green tea, instead of brushing the teeth.
The peasant-style bread with its crunchy exterior and soft interior is often served with creamy, sweet pinon butter made from locally-abundant pine nuts.
From the peasant destitution in which they were sunk to the very petit bougeois pleasures of three meals a day and a roof over their heads.
Mr Mugabe's second populist bid is land nationalisation, which he hopes will win over the peasant farmers who make up about 70% of Zimbabwe's 12.7m people.
Back in his native Goose Village, his parents arranged his marriage to the peasant woman Shuyu so that they would have someone to nurse them through their final illnesses while Lin pursued his medical career far away in the army.
It reached right to the heart of the Empire, to India, a country she never visited but whose problems, of famine, poor sanitation, and oppression of the peasant class by unscrupulous landowners, were a major concern in the latter part of her life.
Unlike many others who had focused on agriculture when they studied peasants, Dunham saw the peasant industries as a survival strategy where generalists could move from plowing to making bricks or repairing bicycles, weeding or making batik cloth or running a roadside stall as demand shifted.
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In 1685, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, in Somerset, England, the troops of King James II defeated the mainly peasant supporters of the Duke of Monmouth.
Abolishing the agricultural tax has saved the average peasant around 100 yuan a year.
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In the midst of the terror and insecurity, UN official Jochen Wiese offered peasant farmers the option of leaving coca for coffee with the incentive that if they worked together their product could reach the international marketplace.
Mr Siluma thinks the elevation of a Zulu from a peasant background to the presidency of sub-Saharan Africa's most sophisticated country may help revive some of the mores and cultures that had been sadly fading.
But in places like Pinto, the problems of peasant farmers owe much to politics.
And with 90% of the population in peasant agriculture, most Bhutanese remain poor.
By the time the brigade starts to tackle the smaller, peasant-owned coca fields, officials say that alternative development projects should be in place.
The small town of Doylestown, PA is the base of Peasant's operations, which is a fitting origin for DeRose's intimate and earthy neo-folk songs.
The farmers, who were interested in developing community seed banks and strengthening family farming, met with the Brazilian Landless Peasant Movement (known by its Portuguese acronym MST).
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The Colorados were ferocious opponents, who accused Mr Lugo of weakness in the face of land occupations by radical peasant groups, and the criminal activities of a small band of guerrillas.
With the exception of an occasional instrument here or there, Peasant is entirely the work of one man: Damien DeRose.
Her impact, at AID and the Ford Foundation and with departments of the Indonesian government, grew out of her deep understanding of village peasant economics, the importance of women in the rural economy, and her love of the people she met in her work.
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The government established the "rondas campesinas" (peasant rounds) a program that provided the campesinos in the interior with the means to combat terrorism and defend themselves and their families.
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As for Viehmann, she was not a peasant but the wife of a tailor.
"Grief, " a searing 1942 picture of a Crimean battlefield, shows an anguished peasant discovering the body of her husband.
"Grief, " a searing 1942 picture of a muddy Crimean battlefield, shows an anguished peasant discovering the body of her husband.
Forget the clunky, weighty peasant mugs of yore (for savages) and clear some space for a new generation of erudite, lean and feather light beerware.
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