He was gaining control over the peasants by herding them into "strategic hamlets" — fortified places, surrounded by barbed-wire fences.
The junta appealed to the highland peasants by expropriating many of the landed estates, which thereafter were operated by government-directed collectives or by individuals or Indian communes.
Gente d'Aspromonte (1930; Revolt in Aspromonte), sometimes considered his best work, examines the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria.
The application of various administrative pressures including punitive measures resulted in the recollectivization of one-half of the peasants by 1931.
He could never go into El Salvador and say heigh-ho, another load of dead peasants by the roadside, courtesy of the American death squads.
Called "The Dream of Ding Village," it is reportedly a science-fictiony satire in which opportunists export the blood of peasants by pipeline, as if it were oil.
And if the peasants by the roadside can't read them as they pass at 100 miles per hour, what's the point in owning the car, really?
By the 17th century, paintings of peasants by Louis Le Nain, of allegories and Classical myths by Nicolas Poussin, and of formally pastoral scenes by Claude Lorrain began to give French art its own characteristics.
In her chair my grandmother, who by now has probably finished "The Peasants," by that Pole, is reading another long, dull book, this time by a Dutchman called Couperus, who did not win the Nobel Prize.
But this week, too, a prosecutor investigating the killing of 27 peasants by the AUC in January was murdered, presumably by the paramilitaries themselves.Colombians increasingly believe that the guerrillas will not negotiate seriously until they have been weakened on the battlefield.
