DOWN TO THE LAST DROP
COCAINE IS NOT THE ONLY DRUG COLOMBIA exports. Its principal legal source of foreign exchange is coffee. More than 300,000 ...
In the Beginning There Was the Coffee Oligarchy
El Salvador. The smallest of Central America's republics--roughly the size of Massachusetts. The banana republic where no bananas are grown ...
The Neoliberal World Order: The View from the Highlands of Guatemala
It had been a productive morning so far. The family I was helping had picked close to 200 pounds of ...
A Bitter Taste: Struggling for Just the Minimum
On the morning of Monday, November 13, 2000, Marcella Pérez Rodríguez opened her front door to find a written death ...
Justice and Java: Coffee In a Fair Trade Market
Sip a steaming brew at Starbucks, and you might associate coffee with prosperity. The image of carefree consumers enjoying $3 ...
To the Last Drop
Surveying the agricultural and economic prospects of the Boconó region in the Venezuelan Andes in 1841, Italian geographer Agustin Codazzi ...
A Day in Zapatista Autonomous Community
The morning mist begins to lift from the small rural settlement of Lucio Cabañas, revealing hintsboth welcome and ominousthat a ...
