There weren't 10,000 peasant farmers, just a mere 5,000, from all corners of the globe.
"He wants to bring 10,000 peasant farmers and food producers to Turin for a congress.
It has been calculated that a fief needed from 15 to 30 peasant families to maintain one knightly household.
The fear here has been growing since 1995, when 17 peasant advocates in Guerrero were killed by the authorities in a military-style ambush.
Mr Uribe is due to travel to Europe this month to seek $300m in foreign aid to help 50,000 peasant families, two-thirds of them in Putumayo.
WHILE their husbands crouch over Korans in Islamic schools, 30 peasant mothers, many with babes in arms, recite English nursery rhymes.
Again this is the tip of a very big and ugly iceberg: in 2006, 26 peasant women were physically beaten and sexually assaulted by police after being detained during protests.
In the fertile Bajo Aguán, land conflicts have fueled a dirty war in which almost 150 peasant farmers and their supporters have been murdered since the coup, mainly by paramilitary groups.
This week, government officials stunned the white farmers' union and foreign donors with an announcement that they would soon redistribute more than 3,000 white-owned farms, half the white commercial farm land, to 500,000 peasant families.
In Honduras, the second most dangerous country, 93 peasant farmers in the fertile Bajo Aguan region have been murdered since 2010 amid land conflicts with agribusinesses expanding African palms plantations that are traded globally on the lucrative carbon credits scheme.
