Not the most accurate headline. The nut of the story is not that peasants are being crushed beneath the remorseless wheels of industry — that’s not news — but that some have found a way out through selling boutique quality vegetables and fruits into markets that insulate them from the supermarkets who drive prices down and, by their own admission, punish farmers who can’t always deliver. Somehow, I suspect farming in central America is less technologically advanced than here in el Norte. What’s also telling is that one successful co-op tried to clone itself, financing each effort, three times: each attempt failed.