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Sometimes we have trouble
dealing with the poverty around us in Nicaragua.
The lives of those lucky enough to be members of
the Cooperativa
Carlos Diaz Cajina are
better than many on the island.
The Hacienda is placed
constantly under economic threat. When small loans
are requested for seeds or feed, banks require the
whole farm property be used as collateral. What better
way to wrestle the property away from the cooperative
and give it away to landowners who traditionally pay
less than subsistence wages, a principle the United
States government supports.
The children remind us
that life has purpose above and beyond that found
in the bloated rhetoric of war; the succulence of
fruit juices washing over the chin of a child could
become a reminder that a cooperative effort to share
in the bounty of the earth is not evil--if we'd
let it.
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