Campesino
Campesino may refer to:
- The arts
- Los Campesinos! - an indie pop band from Cardiff, Wales.
- Teatro Campesino - a theater group founded by the United Farm Workers.
- People
- "El Campesino" - Valentín González, a military leader during the Spanish Civil War.
- campesinos - Mexican farm workers who participated in the Bracero Program during World War II in the United States.
- Politics
- Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia - the "Unique Confederation of Rural Laborers of Bolivia"
- Bloque Obrero y Campesino - the Workers and Peasants' Bloc in 1930s Barcelona.
- Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos in Mexico
Etymology
Campesino is a Spanish language term referring to a farmer or farmworker. A possible English language equivalent term is peasant, with connotations of subsistence or simple farming that aims to survive rather than generate a profit.[1] In the Hispanidad, many people referred to as campesinos survive using subsistence farming, as in other parts of the world.
The term guajiro, which is American Spanish for "rustic,"[2] is a synonym for campesino in Cuba,[3] where it is also related to Guajira (music).
References
- ^ drae:campesino
- ^ The New World Spanish/English English/Spanish dictionary. New American Library, 1968, p. 264: “guajiro (gwa'xi·ro) n.m. & adj. Amer. rustic.”
- ^ José Barreiro (1989). ""Indians in Cuba."" (html). Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 56-60.
The term guajiro is synonymous in Cuba with campesino or countryman-peasant.