How would you interpret this sentence? Don Enrique has lost everything in the nationalization. Mother reports that the hacienda on Isla Pixol has been appropriated, turned over to the people of the village as a communal farm. They turned the house into a school. “Well, good. One provincial school will have some books in it, anyway.” “You would be on their side, wouldn’t you? Houseboy for the pinkos.” “The point of the appropriation law is restitution, Mother. Meaning Don Enrique or his family must have taken that land from the villagers in the first place.” “But look, were they really using it? Your Leandro is probably the president of the collective now, trying to work out how to put on a pair of shoes.” How would you interpret this sentence in the last passage: were they really using it? Thanks!