Campesino.24

Electricity is no use to me if I can’t pay for it. The road is useless if I have no money for bus fare. We have to be organized! We have electricity, we have water, we have telephones. What do we need to become stronger? Agriculture. Why talk of industry? We are not industrialists. We have to talk of agriculture if we want to move forward.

--Celso, San Martin Jilotepeque

It looked hopeless to me. “But we have more teachers than students!”
One of the farmer-extensionists, José Cupertino, smiled and shook his
head politely. “No,” he said, “we too, are students.”