Santiago Garcia Afonso, AGAPITO, He died at the 91 YEARS IN HIS NATIVE VILLAGE.

Santiago with his thirteen companions, was promoter and founder of the Agricultural Cooperative of La Aldea, COAGRISÁN Year 1961. Fourteen visionaries who had the courage to confront the prevailing model and opt for other social and cooperative.

Agapito, which is how he was known, He was an exemplary farmer like the rest of his teammates. cheerful, witty and optimistic as few. He faced life with good grace, with the same adorning every facet of his life.

Good friend of his friends, better father and husband, real passion was to music pouring from the strings of his guitar, his faithful companion farras, Taifa and adventures that always had one last note for his efforts and wishes. He clung to the wooden soundboard chords reveled in endless meetings in transmitting his enthusiasm and frenzy.

Raised in Los Pasitos, neighborhood of La Aldea, his life revolved around agriculture developed and implemented with determination, betting on the dignity of work and with determination and courage to face the difficulties that arose during the process of creating the cooperative.

Without a doubt, those who knew him agree that his philosophy of life was joy. its engine, friendship. his honesty, his identity. That was his life. Adapting modes of “dandy” represented in the cinema of the time, Agapito knew how to express and adapt fashion to his person; as a brush and “to the last”, and he lived every day.

Like the rest of the fellow founders of COAGRISÁN, He was named Honorary President of the Cooperative. With a generation of brave Agapito will, bold and visionary, which they have been an example of entrepreneurialism, commitment and perseverance to La Aldea de San Nicolás.

His legacy, firm and strongly grounded in humility and honesty, It shows that seed had the best “know to do”; 52 years later it has grown COAGRISÁN, It has transformed and adapted with the same tenacity to face adversity.

Forming COAGRISAN family moved its condolences to the family, as well as the best memory for a man who has also lived and felt strongly his people.

In the words of the great Miguel de Unamuno: “When someone dies who dreams us, a part of us dies.”

Rest in peace, Santiago Garcia Afonso, A good man. And to continue the music…!