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Figure 1.2 Cooperative La Normandía.
Courtesy of the authors.
The farm was expropriated in 1980 as part of the agrarian reform and a cooperative
of former employees was named by the military officer present. But the counterinsurgency
intent of the reform was not realized: some members of the cooperative continued
to covertly assist the FMLN and the cooperative later joined an opposition organization.
As shown in Figure 1.2, at the close of the war, the approximately 175 reform
cooperative members cultivated individual plots of corn, sesame, and, near the
old farmhouse, chile; many cooperative members raised a few head of cattle as
well. Notably, the National Guard post was gone. (The pink grid of properties
along the right hand edge of the map indicates property lost in 1989 as a result
of a conflict with the government.)
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