71.   Vote buying has traditionally been the chief route to power in Thailand, a largely rural nation where the votes of poor farmers are crucial.

72.   What does a poor farmer need that kind of money for?

73.   What place do poor farmers have in an industrializing economy?

74.   When Oaxaca state Gov. Jose Murat came to this mountain town recently to give some well-timed aid to poor local farmers, he was greeted with lots of smiles.

75.   Why are poor farmers killing each other over politics?

76.   Yet in rural Renshou county there have been riots among poor farmers.

77.   Others are accused of taking flood-relief funds or money meant for piping water to poor farmers.

78.   Poor farmers have been enticed to sell blood at official clinics that were unsanitary.

79.   Poor farmers are regularly forced off land they cultivated for decades by rich and powerful Cambodians who obtain new land titles by bribing local officials.

80.   Poor farmers have also tried to take back land now used as a golf course near Jakarta.