Also, in groups, it is easier to offer technical assistance and information. Once a year in many Rio Patuca communities, Mopawi offers classes - plant management and health, increasing productivity, administration, marketing. For ten years, Mopawi has been encouraging cooperation - the persistent problem for Mopawi has been the persistent refusal of these folks to work in groups. Meglomaniacal cyberworld takeover stopped by wronged man turned primieval warrior by benevolent aliens from Atlantis. Sure they have clothes and food, but sending their kids to school or having a few extra cassettes, power all day long, no.
Most new pueblos take a little getting used to.
I finally found a way to get in here, I sat in the town centro, writing. I share this vision of the US so that they will know what comes with money - scrawny trees, hemorrhoids, and locks on all the doors. Maybe these Miskito dwellers understand, and by refusing to work together, or by doing so painfully slowly, they are forcing a slow acclimation, a gradual middling between the money culture and their own more of sharing. But Mopawi is clearly having an motivating effect, and there's an optomistic sense of soon to this old program. I was unsure how 600 miskito farmers could be said to be doing anything in unison, but Melius answers that the chemicals are not even vended in the area.