bohios

Isn't it a contradiction that we still use the hand plow and the yoke of oxen? and the existence of the "bohios" (thatched-roof huts), full of parasites, without any possibility of health or hygiene, isn't this

TELEVISION APPEARANCE ON CHANNEL 2 1959

The houses of the country people are exactly like the "bohios" used by the Indians at the time of the conquest, as pictured and described by the early writers.

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

"bohios" [thatched-roof rural houses] remain standing.

DEDICATION OF NEW RURAL COMMUNITY 1977

Unlike the Senora's, the bohios were raised several feet above the ground on stilts.

Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

It was a real house, larger than the neighboring houses, or bohios, as they were called by the families who lived in them.

Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

There are almost no bohios [typical Cuban huts] left.

Castro Speaks at Education Workers Congress 1991

Each new dwelling should represent one area that is cleared of bohios.

DEDICATION OF NEW RURAL COMMUNITY 1977

But the solution to the problems should not be the distribution to others of the bohios.

DEDICATION OF NEW RURAL COMMUNITY 1977

But there is still much to be done about ... the living conditions in rural areas and how many bohios, [thatched-roof dwellings] there are still in the rural areas.

FIFTH ANAP CONGRESS 1977

We do not solve the problem this way, because those isolated bohios occupy land, those isolated bohios do not solve the social problem we want to solve.

DEDICATION OF NEW RURAL COMMUNITY 1977