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Figure 3.4 Cooperativa San Pedro
Los Arenales, 1992. Courtesy of the authors.
As shown by the cornstalks drawn on the postwar map of the area, during the war
residents cultivated corn on the properties closest to the roadway. The mapmaker,
a very religious person, marked with crosses the sites where two campesinos died
at the hand of the Atonal Battalion in 1983, and where Comandante "Miriam"
of the armed wing of the Communist Party (shown by its acronym "FAL")
died in 1984, as can be seen with the legend in the lower left hand corner, which
includes the names of the dead. In 1987, the mapmakers, the two kibitzers, and
other local residents founded the Cooperativa San Pedro Los Arenales. The map
title midway down the lefthand side of the map, "Mapa de las Propiedades
de la Asociación Cooperativa San Pedro Los Arenales, de Responsibilidad
Limitada" ("Map of the Properties of the Cooperative Association San
Pedro Los Arenas of Limited Responsibility," the latter phrase the Salvador
equivalent of "Incorporated) includes the formal name of the cooperative
as a way of asserting the cooperative’s legal claim. Cooperative members
lived close together at the very southern end of the town, an unusually tight
clustering of members shown by green dots. The cooperative gradually occupied
ten local estates, including the Finca Leonor, which are listed by landlord and
area listed on the left hand legend. Not all the properties in the area were occupied;
a few are visible within the cooperative boundary. Cooperative members stated
that they targeted abandoned farms or those with "uncooperative" owners.
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