An arrested recruit   Chapter 13. About how cigars and how they explode      Lately, he clearly realized the danger in not having chosen sides. He was completely aware, how the risk greatly increased each day. Finally, he decided between the Sandinistas or the US-backed government Contras, with his heart and his feelings, after…

A recruit with a plane   Chapter 13. About how cigars and how they explode      One day, my grandfather rose early in the morning. After breakfast and without breathing a word to anyone, not even to my grandmother Manuela, he walked over to the Sandinista’s Revolutionary Armed Forces Office in León, and without…

Chapter XIII:   About cigars and how they explode In a way, Grandfather still fumigated with his trusty Cessna. In his own words: “I don’t believe that things are so different, here and now; before, I would spend my time, flying over the cotton plantations and fighting the cotton plagues. Now I still fly, not only…