peasant farmer
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“We are not Chavistas, we are not communists, we are not extremists,” Castillo said in a speech last week, wearing his customary wide-brimmed straw hat, a reflection of his peasant farmer roots.
From Reuters • Jul. 28, 2021
Nicolas Ferrand, the proprietor of Domaine des Côtes Rousses, calls himself a paysan vigneron, a peasant farmer and winemaker.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021
John Pombe Magufuli, the son of a peasant farmer who became Tanzania's president in 2015, has died aged 61.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2021
“A Hidden Life” tells the story of Franz Jägerstätter, a peasant farmer from the Austrian village of St. Radegund who was imprisoned and executed in 1943 for refusing to fight for the Nazis.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2019
If you were a peasant farmer in Southern China, by contrast, you didn’t sleep through the winter.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
