by Donna Tabor
On a lofty Nicaraguan mountainside near
This unlikely group of campesinos (farmers) had joined cooperatively in the mid 80’s, a time when political views mattered, yet they left separate ideologies behind them. The cooperative idea enticed ex-Sandinistas, ex-Contras and members of ex-Guardia (the abusive national guard during the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship), to live and work together as neighbors. They named their farm El Porvenir…The Future.



