“Today the Chacarero No Longer Exists,” Laments Producer Marcelo Ruano, Who Undertook the Rescue of that Figure with Cooperativeism to Demonstrate that It Is Still Possible to Live and Produce in the Countryside

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For some, the project of life of Marcelo Adrián Ruano may be a resquicio of another era, of another stage of life in the countryside. For him, it is quite the opposite: a choice of a philosophy of life that is very disruptive, precisely, with the current configuration of the sector. Marcelo is a chacarero and cooperativeist, two labels that seem to be drawn from a history book but that configure for him, and for many other producers of Río Cuart…