CAMPESINO

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'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.
;''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.
==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; however, campesino lacks the negative connotations that are associated with the term peasant. In the Hispanic world, many people referred to as ''campesinos'' survive using subsistence farming, whereas subsistence farming almost entirely died out in the Anglophone world.
However, in social studies, a more rigorous approach differentiates between ''campesino'' (peasant) and ''granjero'' (farmer), the former being subject to some sort of unfair domination or exploitation and the latter an independent producer for subsistence, the market, or both.
The term guajiro, which is American Spanish for "rustic,"^[1] is a synonym for ''campesino'' in Cuba,^[2] where it is also related to Guajira (music).

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1. ''The New World Spanish/English English/Spanish dictionary.'' New American Library, 1968, p. 264: “guajiro (gwa'xi·ro) ''n.m.'' & ''adj. Amer.'' rustic.”
2. "Indians in Cuba." José Barreiro