INTRO TO POLITICS
I've never been a political person. God and family have been the driving forces in my life. I love my profession (animal and plant agriculture) and would not change it for any other. Being close to nature and to the "land" brings a singular perspective and greater appreciation for the beauty that surrounds us. I've worked very hard, and aside from a few early rebellious years, always tried to do the right thing once I took on the responsibility of marriage and fatherhood. We were thrown into political discussion and arguments before the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, trying to figure out why a system that seemed bearable needed to be replaced with a bloody revolution. The era of the "New Man" arrived with a strange political ideology, whose only interpreters were the Marxist Comandantes, spawned by the Cuban Revolution. An overbearing revolutionary political thought permeated every aspect of ordinary life and a common-sense approach to prob...