Raylene Richards Filmografie

NEW GUINEA, NO LIGHT IN THE JUNGLE

This March 5 held 46 years of founding the city of New Guinea. It commemorates the epic feat that seventeen rural poor Somoto originating and Carazo, including two women, along with Rev. Miguel Torres and several officials of Nicaragua's Agrarian Institute (IAN), performed to reach the current county seat of New Guinea. Spiritually guided by the reverend, dreamed of owning land to enable them to achieve the support of their families in the mountain and found the first village of Evangelicals, who would call "light in the jungle."

marginalized and abandoned in a hostile environment, endured hunger and disease. Without giving up pressure on the government to receive due attention, coinciding with the struggle of poor farmers in the West, banished cotton growing. In order to reduce tensions, in 1970 the area delimited IAN 400.112 hectares to develop the settlement project called "Rigoberto Cabezas." Drought in the Pacific, 1971, eruption of Black Hill and the earthquake in Managua in 1972, were sufficient grounds for the IAN moved thousands of families to the area.

In the period 1972 to 1979, the colonization process has moved from being spontaneous and planned to be regulated by the IAN. For this, the government obtained financing from the IDB and advice the Government of Israel embodied the model of "colony", concentrated rural settlement with basic services and rural gifted than 50 acres of land around it, inspired by the kibbutz (agricultural settlement) in Israel. It provided all support services: opening a branch of the National Development Bank to extend credit and make farms by indiscriminate clear-cutting forests, inputs and seed support, road construction, rural electrification, schools, health posts and track landing. As if by magic, New Guinea became the breadbasket of Nicaragua , based on the production of beans and corn, and the main supplier of wood to the Plywood .

During the Sandinista government (1979-1990), the revolution meant the dismantling of the structures of IAN and aborted the logic of PRICA. There was a new process of land reform with the abolition of landlordism, promotion of cooperatives by providing land, credit democratization and promotion of large-scale cocoa and rubber. On August 5, 1981, the area is high at the county level and from 1983, becomes a scene of war. The programs were frustrated and the local economy begins to go into crisis. Thousands of peasant families migrated to Costa Rica, while others were incorporated into the armed conflict and distrust and dissatisfaction with the lack of policies aimed at individual farm sector. In 1988, Hurricane Jeanne seriously affected the social infrastructure and ended with the remnants of the mountain.

With the change of government in 1990 there was a process of pacification and resettlement, resettling demobilized combatants, returnees and poor peasant immigrants from different parts of the country. Churches Protestant and Catholic played a leading role in this process with foreign cooperation, developing alternative projects to the weak state presence. The paving of the road between New Guinea and the Gateada promoting conditions for economic recovery, increased production and export of roots and tubers, grains and livestock development and trade.

The current population is estimated at 140 000 inhabitants, of which seventy percent of whom live in colonies and villages. The village, elevated to city status on 13 February 2008, umbrella of economic activities taking place in 30 settlements and 183 counties by providing various types of services, primarily commercial.

The future is uncertain. Poverty continues to grow and has entered a new crisis. The soils have lost fertility, low yields are obtained in crops and rising production costs. The adverse weather caused crop losses constantly. The export of roots and tubers has declined, as did the cattle. The peasants have come to limit their debt levels. Young people are without alternative employment and income, the product of peasant logic to inherit the land until death and migrate to Costa Rica and other parts of the country.

The process of peasant differentiation and the presence of "new actors" have deepened the concentration of land. Many peasants have migrated to areas near Biological Reserve Indio-Maíz to start again. The end of compassion is notorious for lack of programs and foreign aid projects, while the state and local governments act fragmented, inconsistent and vision of the medium and long term, leaving the hopes and dreams to build the "light in the jungle."

Hill, New Guinea.

Wednesday, March 2 201