Getting Ahead Collectively. Grassroots Experiences in Latin by Albert O. Hirschman
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How did they become fishermen? It turned out to be a remarkable story. In 1975, a group of peasants from the village invaded a piece of land that had been idle for a long time, with the idea of working it collectively. They undertook this action toward the end of a period of fairly widespread peasant unrest and land invasions, particularly in the flatlands near Colombia's Atlantic coast. This period of peasant activism followed COOPERATIVE ACTION: PRIOR MOBILIZATION 45 the more vigorous application of the land reform law of 1961 in the late 1960s under President Carlos Lleras Restrepo and the simultaneous establishment of a peasant union (ANUC = Asociacibn Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos) that was conceived by Lleras as a way for peasants to participate more actively in the reform.
FranQais, qui etes-vous? (Paris: La documentaton frangaise, 1980), pp. 191-201. See also, for a more extended version, J. Guyaz, Les innovateurs et leurs innovations, unpubl. doctoral thesis (Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1981). 44 GETTING AHEAD COLLECTIVELY Village of Cristo Rey, Caribbean coast, Colombia. story is that of the fishermen's cooperative at the small settlement of Cristo Rey on the country's Caribbean Coast. From Monteria, the hot interior capital of the Department of Cordoba, we drove along rich and sparsely cultivated haciendas to the coast.
Most movingly, the coop members, true to their original vocation as agriculturalists, now think of renting some land from a nearby landowner and of cultivating it collectively. As a cooperative, with a "legal personality" (personeria juridica) and some pledgeable assets, they will be treated with the respect that is usually denied the single, virtually landless farmer. Thus the dream they were pursuing in 1975 may yet come true, after a long detour and "with different m e a n s . " The story is edifying, but could it have happened without that first step, the failed attempt to seize the land?