Between 1972 and 1975, peasants and workers grappled with the rise of coffee plantations and tenants’ demands. Their struggle highlights the cultural and political significance of land, contrasting Indigenous perspectives with the ruling class’s power dynamics.

As arresting as the most hard-hitting manifesto, this work of nonfiction also reverberates with folk songs calling for emancipation and change. Exhorting the underclasses to stop making the rich fat and sharpen their scythes instead, Peasants is made in the name of the people and for the people.