Meaning & use
Campesinos
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Peasant farmers or rural agricultural laborers, especially in Latin America.
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The campesinos organized a cooperative to sell their coffee directly to international buyers.
Land reform in the region was meant to give campesinos legal title to the fields they worked.
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Campesinos is a Spanish loanword widely used in English-language journalism and scholarship about Latin American rural life and politics.
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peasantsfarmworkers
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