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  Campesino may refer to:

The arts
  • Los Campesinos!
    Los Campesinos!

    Los Campesinos! are a seven piece indie pop band from Cardiff, Wales that formed in early 2006 at Cardiff University. They released their debut album, Hold on Now, Youngster..., in February 2008 and released their second album, entitled We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed, later that same year on October 27, 2008....
     - an indie pop band from Cardiff, Wales.
  • Teatro Campesino
    Teatro Campesino

    El Teatro Campesino , is a theatre troupe founded in 1965 as the cultural arm of the United Farm Workers. The original actors were all farmworkers, and El Teatro Campesino enacted events inspired by the lives of their audience....
     - a theater group founded by the United Farm Workers.


People
  • "El Campesino" - Valentín González
    Valentín González

    Valent?n Gonz?lez was a Second Spanish Republic military commander during the Spanish Civil War. Known as El Campesino , Valentin Gonzalez was one of many well-regarded officers to have served in the Ej?rcito Popular of the Second Spanish Republic....
    , a military leader during the Spanish Civil War.
  • campesinos - Mexican farm workers who participated in the Bracero Program
    Bracero Program

    The Bracero Program, , was a temporary contract labor program initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico....
     during World War II in the United States.


Politics
  • Unique Confederation of Rural Laborers of Bolivia - the Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia
  • Bloque Obrero y Campesino - the Workers and Peasants' Bloc
    Workers and Peasants' Bloc

    The Workers and Peasants' Bloc was a "Right Opposition" communist group in Spain. BOC was founded in Barcelona in 1931, as the mass front of the Catalan-Balearic Communist Federation , after the merger of the Catalan Communist Party into FCCB....
     in 1930s Barcelona.
  • Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos
    Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos

    The CROC is a Mexican trade union confederation. It is one of the most important and influential trade unions in the History of Mexico.It was founded in April 1952....
     in Mexico


Etymology
Etymology

Etymology is the study of the roots and history of words; and how their form and meaning have changed over time.In languages with a long detailed history, etymology makes use of philology, the study of how words change from culture to culture over time....

Campesino is a Spanish language
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 term referring to a farmer
Farmer

A farmer is a person who raises living organisms for food or raw materials....
 or farmworker
Farmworker

A farmworker is a person hired to work in the agricultural industry. This includes work on farms of all sizes, from small, family-run businesses to large industrial agriculture operations....
. A possible English language
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 equivalent term is peasant
Peasant

A peasant is an agriculture worker who subsists by working a small plot of ground. The word is derived from 15th century French language pa?sant meaning one from the pays, or rural, ultimately from the Latin pagus, or outlying administrative district ....
, with connotations of subsistence or simple farming that aims to survive rather than generate a profit. In the Spanish-speaking world
Hispanicity

'Hispanicity' is the community formed by all the people and countries that share a common hispanic-heritage and cultural pattern. The 23 nations that are included are all Spanish-speaking, the community can be classified into four geographic areas: Hispanic Europe , Hispanic America , Hispanic Africa and Hispanic Oceania-Asia-Paci...
, many people referred to as campesinos survive using subsistence farming, as in other parts of the world.

The term guajiro, which is American Spanish
Spanish dialects and varieties

Spanish dialects and varieties are the regional variants of the Spanish language, some of which are quite divergent from each other, especially in pronunciation and vocabulary, less so in grammar....
 for "rustic," is a synonym for campesino in Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
, where it is also related to Guajira (music)
Guajira (music)

Guajira is a form of Cuban Music of Cuba#M?sica campesina . As sung, it has some similarity to the criolla and the punto. It contains bucolic countryside lyrics, rhyming, similar to d?cima poetry....
.