Cuando la revolución llegó al campo: la política agraria sandinista, su debate y su impacto en las zonas rurales del interior

Abstract

This article analyses the agrarian policies developed and implement by the Sandinista administration in Nicaragua during the 1980's. It exposes the debate within organizations entrusted with transforming the agrarian sector betwen those who favoured peasant production and those who favoured industrialised farmig. Finally, the article considers the impact of these policies on rural societies on the frontier of colonization in the interior of the country, (in the eastern part of the departments of Boaco, Chontales and Matagalpa). The Sandinistas' agrarian policies destroyed many symbolic, political and economic elements of such societies. This is one of the keys to explaing the social base of the Contras in these areas.