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.
• campesinos - Mexican farm workers who participated in the Bracero Program during World War II in the United States.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.
• Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos in Mexico

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. In the Spanish-speaking world, many people referred to as campesinos survive using subsistence farming, as in other parts of the world.

The term guajiro, which is American Spanish for "rustic, is a synonym for campesino in Cuba, where it is also related to Guajira (music).

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