Revolutions and peasants: a difficult equation. Analysis and criticism of the Sandinista agrarian policies, 1979-1989

Abstract

This article analyze critically the social and economical transformation promoted by the Sandinista agricultural reform and its achievements. The agricultural sector aims at the revolutionary context were three: alimentary self-supply, currency generation and social and economical production organization. Another special issue of agricultural reform was the transformation of social production organization and the political join of productive actors through union organizations.