1. Even now it is the magnet that draws the rural peasants and small businessmen looking for work and casual labour. 2. A more accurate term might be urban subsistence, similar to the way rural peasants grow their own crops and survive outside the money economy. 3. Caught worst of all are the rural peasants. 4. Continued political repression and economic hardship forced an exodus of rural peasants who fled Haiti in rickety boats, their plight a staple of the nightly news. 5. Cockfighting, the age-old blood sport of English kings, Asian emperors, American Presidents and rural peasants, is finding its way into the suburbs. 6. Romero believes the focus should be on providing more opportunity for the rural peasants who grow the coca and poppy. 7. The rural peasants are whipsawed between the competing groups. 8. Though impoverished, neglected, and denied title to land, rural peasants give Mugabe a solid base of support. 9. But since then, the city has struggled to absorb an influx of tens of thousands of rural peasants fleeing guerrilla violence and dismal economic conditions. 10. Cambodian physicians have long been known for openly disdaining patients, particularly city doctors in their dealings with rural peasants. |