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Rural Mexico's Silent Crisis By Joseph Sorrentino: 26Oct; El Campo: La Crisis En Silencio/Rural Mexico’s Silent Crisis Mexico’s rural area—el campo—is in crisis. Over 80% of campesinos (rural workers or small farmers) are defined as “extremely poor” meaning they earn less than $2 a day. They’re receiving less revenue for the crops they grow at a time when the cost of growing those crops has increased five-fold and the cost of food staples—corn, beans, rice—have increased 80% to...; Tags: Mexico, campesinos, rural crisis