Porque lloras...?

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This is asked when it rains, sort of like it has been... everyday. I believe the rains to be a cause of global warming, as the earth and her climate has been reacting differently this year than it has in the past. The rains make the air cold and the ground muddly but it definitely does not prevent my community from working or even palying soccer. Even under the rain, the people here in my community diligently work on constructing houses, tending their fields, and walking their lambs, pigs and cows, to and from food. As for me, I´m still a bit of a weak sauce and seek shelter with a book or hot cup of instant coffee until the rain escapes. Apparently, the rain will eventually give way to clearer skies, thier summer is in August and comes with sunny skies, wind, and cold air. Interesting conversation I had the other day with my companera Lucy, was about how the construction of ´summer´ is very much a Western adoption by Latin America because in acutality, like in my site, we really don´t have a summer here in the Sierra mountains! Or at least in the Western sense of heat, sun, and warm weather. I´m slowly learning that here on the mountains, you cna more or less plan all year long at anytime, it just depends on what and how. Because of the cold, most plants do not survive, unless started in a green house and then transplanted in comparative warmer climates down by the river, or within shelter of a lot of trees. Although there is some sun at my site (in comparison to Lucy and Craig´s site which does not have much sun and is located at river level) (which also then implies that my site is high up on the mountain with the river a hike´s trail down below) there is not enough to grow crops such as corn, even though a large portion of campesinos do and believe it is a suitable crop for the sierra.
The change in weather has alos made it harder to make life here more financially and economically predictable for the campesinos. For example, nearly all of the fava bean and potato crop died last season because of frost combined with a diseases. With the potato production at a loss, the prices of papas in the market raised substantially, meaning that one of their stable dietary foods was no longer in financial reach of consumption (the other being rice). So, what happens is that the next season, farmers try to plant papas again! Mind you without any sort of crop-rotation, or PREPARATION of the soil with green manure, or alternative planting strategies. The other thing that is risky, ist hat if the next papa season does not die then there will be a multitude of papas in the maket, thus lowering the price at which the middle-man at the market will give in payment for the papas to the campesinos..This trend unfortunately happens throughout the countryside.