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 hints—both welcome and ominous—that a ...
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 ...
