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The rest of the year he worked without pay in Haiti, mainly doctoring peasants who had lost their land to a hydroelectric dam.†
Chpt 1.1

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
The way he talked, it seemed he actually enjoyed living among Haitian peasant farmers.†
Chpt 1.1
My first week in Cange I met a peasant farmer who had brought a sick child to the hospital—by donkey, on a trek of twelve miles along Highway 3.†
Chpt 1.3
Perhaps a million peasant farmers relied on Zanmi Lasante.†
Chpt 1.3
It was a modified ti kay, a replica of the better sort of peasant house, with a metal roof and concrete floors and exceptional in that it had a bathroom, though without hot water.†
Chpt 1.3
That is, not every peasant practiced the indigenous religion called Voodoo, but virtually everyone, including Catholics and Protestants and Voodooists, believed in the reality of maji, of sorcery.†
Chpt 1.3
One local peasant told me, speaking of Farmer, "God gives everyone a gift and his gift is healing."†
Chpt 1.3
Zanmi Lasante's community health workers, who lived among the peasant farmers, who had been until recently mostly peasant farmers themselves, spoke about the economic impediments to treatment, pointing out that the poorest patients tended to fare worst, certainly in part because of malnutrition.†
Chpt 1.4
Zanmi Lasante's community health workers, who lived among the peasant farmers, who had been until recently mostly peasant farmers themselves, spoke about the economic impediments to treatment, pointing out that the poorest patients tended to fare worst, certainly in part because of malnutrition.†
Chpt 1.4
Smiling for a moment, he said that Haitian peasants had a lot of sayings: that they're the only farmers with land so steep they break their legs in their cornfields, that their dogs are so skinny they have to lean against trees in order to bark.†
Chpt 1.4

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
And, if you saw with peasant eyes, Farmer said, the scene looked violent and ugly, a lake that had buried the good farmland and ravaged the highlands.†
Chpt 1.4
But no one seems to have given much thought to the peasant farmers who lived in the valley upstream.†
Chpt 1.4
It wasn't as though the peasants of the central plateau didn't need and want modern technology, Farmer said.†
Chpt 1.4

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
Since the flooding of the valley, many peasant girls and boys from Cange, children of what Farmer called "the water refugees," had left home looking for work in the capital, where they cooked and cleaned and stitched Mickey Mouse dolls and baseballs, more than a few of them nowadays returning home with AIDS.†
Chpt 1.4
Even after the dam, most peasants still had their black, low-slung Creole pigs, which they kept like bank accounts, to pay for things such as school tuition.†
Chpt 1.4

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
Many peasants ended up with no pigs at all.†
Chpt 1.4
Politics, I supposed, was one means by which Haitian peasants avoided hopelessness.†
Chpt 1.4
As they bumped along the dusty roads, past the miserable peasant huts, she asked him questions.†
Chpt 2.7
He seemed able to talk to anyone but was clearly most interested in talking to peasants—who were, he explained, the vast majority of Haitians, even in the urban slums.†
Chpt 2.7

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
He asked peasants many questions.†
Chpt 2.7
There was nothing accidental about the wretchedness of the road down Morne Kabrit or the overloaded tap-tap, or the desperation of a peasant woman who had to get to market and make a sale because otherwise her family would go hungry.†
Chpt 2.7
He kept traveling around Haiti, hitching rides from blan sometimes, sometimes riding in tap-taps among the peasants and their chickens and their baskets full of mangoes.†
Chpt 2.8

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
He attended Voodoo ceremonies, talked to peasants about their lives, and found his way, among other places, to a hospital in Léogâne, a town about twelve miles west of Port-au-Prince, on Haiti's southern peninsula.†
Chpt 2.8
Almost all the peasants he was meeting shared a belief that seemed like a distillation of liberation theology: "Everybody else hates us," they'd tell him, "but God loves the poor more.†
Chpt 2.8
But the Christianity of the peasants Farmer talked to had a different flavor: "the shared conviction that the rest of the world was wrong for screwing them over, and that someone, someone just and perhaps even omniscient, was keeping score."†
Chpt 2.8
The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share."†
Chpt 2.8
And if the landless peasants of Cange needed to believe that someone omniscient was keeping score, by now Farmer felt the need to believe something like that himself.†
Chpt 2.9
In the peasant phrase, an unnecessary death was "a stupid death," and he was seeing a lot of those.†
Chpt 2.9
She'd go to a tiny two-room hut, a chair would appear, and the peasants would offer her a drink and talk about their pain and misery while she took notes.†
Chpt 2.9

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
One peasant woman explained, "A lot of us wondered what would have happened if we had known how to write.†
Chpt 2.9
All that summer there had been signs of unrest, still rather disorganized: impromptu roadblocks made of burning tires, peasants demonstrating in Mirebalais.†
Chpt 2.10

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
A lot of peasants, it seemed, had imagined their lives would improve when Baby Doc left.†
Chpt 2.10
In previous years, before Baby Doc's forced departure, the peasants had rarely dared to talk politics.†
Chpt 2.10
They talked about the insignificance of "cultural barriers" when it came to the Haitian peasant's acceptance of modern Western medicine: "There's nothing like a cure for a disease to change people's cultural values."†
Chpt 2.10
They talked about appearance: "The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes.†
Chpt 2.10
With what seemed like unusual unanimity, the peasants and the people in the slums had embraced something called dechoukaj, the "uprooting" of every visible symbol of the Duvaliers, which included the public persecution and sometimes the killing of former tontons macoutes, mostly small fry, of course.†
Chpt 2.11

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
Speaking of a devoutly Christian peasant, Farmer once said to me, "Of course he believes in Voodoo†
Chpt 2.11
Two days later he was working in his office at the clinic, beginning to feel calmer, when a former tb patient of his, a young peasant woman with a baby, came in speaking frantically.†
Chpt 2.11
The history, that is, as if written in collaboration with a Haitian peasant.†
Chpt 2.12
People who live in crowded peasant huts and urban slums and shantytowns and prisons and homeless shelters stand the best chances of inhaling the bacilli, of having their infections expand into active disease, and in some settings, of getting just enough treatment to make their tb drug-resistant.†
Chpt 3.13
People he talked to told a familiar story, like stories he'd heard from peasants who had migrated to the slums of Port-au-Prince.†
Chpt 3.15

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
And if any of you have been to Haiti, there's hardly anything more morally compelling than the situation of landless peasants in the central plateau.†
Chpt 3.18
The peasants of the central plateau staged an insurrection, which the Marines put down violently.†
Chpt 4.20
One of the men in the back of the truck, a peasant farmer from Kay Epin, had a son who had left home to work as a security guard in the city; recently, the young man had been jailed on suspicion of murder.†
Chpt 4.20
And here was Farmer, who had stood, time after time for eighteen years, at the bedsides of Haitian peasants just arrived by donkey in the last throes of cerebral malaria—grandparents, mothers, fathers, children—already in convulsions.†
Chpt 4.21

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
Around Cange, Farmer noted, the peasants' vocabulary didn't even contain a word for illicit drugs, which virtually no one there could afford anyway.†
Chpt 4.21
And soldiers, back in those days of military rule, had wielded a special coercive power over every peasant.†
Chpt 4.21
He closed in one of his favorite ways, by quoting a peasant.†
Chpt 4.21
"You started that letter on a hike in rural Haiti," I mused aloud, thinking now of those arid highlands, of medieval peasant huts, donkey ambulances.†
Chpt 4.22
It occurred to me that pih would probably always be in some kind of financial jeopardy, because it was constitutionally impossible for Farmer and Kim to sit on resources—to wait for lower drug prices while mdr killed Russian prisoners, to save for an endowment for Zanmi Lasante while Haitian peasants died of AIDS.†
Chpt 5.24

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock

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