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possible whatever about the president there always come times in which prices are low but it's but in the good times the of that we've been able to pay off our debts and update our production facilities in both us that's improve the plantations about very able to day we have companeros who has plantations can rival the big ones workers while good food got on the profits reaped from coffee growing allowed rubin dario to go to university that made him suspect in the eyes of the government which allied itself with the big landowners during the civil war. when will meet our work when the military realized that the guerrillas were trying to contact us i will but they started following us. up in the 1980 the soldiers blew up the buildings of the university here and caught on a really noisy end of agenda. back then some 40 years ago ruben dario pacquet had to flee his hometown of coven. his name was on the military's
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black list. he found shelter and work with. in guatemala city. and he's been a member of the famous co-operative since the very start. whether. this is one of the strings of those world markets for coffee after old. coffee was one of the 1st truly global commodity nice and for the stock exchange guatemalan small farmers are connected to the whole wide wells. he trained as a bank put the co-ops coffee on the commodities markets letting them avoids dodgy middlemen. the small scale coffee farmers formed their federation in 1979 in the middle of a civil war which pitted the army against the maya population the mine has received support from 3rd world organizations around the well. we're not that
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bounder was so good they practically turns medical card walk into a charity of the living so it was a place where we could ask for support. and then really campbell we and said that concept had no future we are born into it or what do we do when the day came when we stopped receiving any development aid we better get to work ourselves. 4th. quarter now was an outcast himself when he started working for fed a coca-cola before that he built up a swiss trading companies coffee business in guatemala but to be able to increase exports he'd have had to pay hefty price. dipping your. toes over the tree so. i wasn't prepared to do that so i called switzerland right away to ask what i should do you know go from door monica say my boss at the time said i didn't
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know how things worked in such countries that paying bribes was common practice and it had to be done a stroller with a small firm and. i resisted that and it was clear they thought i was fairly my own nest and had no future at the company so all this new macos you to a. concert. now then came to the fed as an adviser later he became the organizations director. so. when the very 1st thing i tried to make clear to them was trying to solve your problems yourselves. don't wait for someone to arrive with a gold say i feel life has gone slap but that just doesn't happen. all go we have to tackle the problems ourselves and see if we can get some support. i don't say aid any more it's been struck from my vocabulary creates dependency and that's
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something no one should have. you should be able to develop freely the club at least that's what i learned in switzerland with the. coca-cola sales manager for 3 decades he's worked with cork now as he demanded efficiency and productivity from the co-ops members. when i mentality that's we sentimentalities came together through a swiss one and that of a small farmer from what i'm on. the result was 500 percent growth but at the because all the cooperatives in the federation we banded together to hind quarters ideas. i think the most important thing brought to federal court was the idea that small farmers needed to take themselves seriously and. before that they and their organisations worth program to
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peddle misery to inspire. me syria or. on the us we showed them something else. that they could be proud of their own work of what they produced 40 years of high quality coffee. they look at. the world away from here cost. he has become a luxury good and a lifestyle accessory it gives people a lift and a few moments of pleasure. for the maya people coffee is intertwined with their recent history one they've often suppressed only now that they've achieved economic independence many able to speak of the poverty and horror they've experienced.
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francisco has is a small farmer. he lives together with his children and grandchildren serious person i knew in that room i went to school for 3 years my parents didn't have the money to allow me to pursue my studies i attended school from age 8 to 11 then i just started working without any training but i worked on a coffee far. more to a story. your go across. in this remote region of mountainous northern guatemala another small scale farmer john haas interests have your hair is visiting his father now 100 years old when used to work as a forced labor out on a coffee plantation or. the family converses in the maya language.
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while. i was born here in this modest area in the village and. i grew with that and it taught us how to work. hard here there was never enough to live from so people had to go elsewhere to earn money you know where i was 7 the 1st time my brother and i accompanied our father to the coast. but i'll be higher in the course the i was paid with 3 tortillas but only when i filled my basket with at least 12 kilos of coffee. if the basket wasn't food there were no tortillas then well there it was the rest of my father would help me with a couple of handfuls of coffee so that way i got my 3 tortillas. donna phyllis ya know silvio lives in the back of the town in the department of key chain. she's raised 6 children largely on her own her husband died in the
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aftermath of the guatemalan civil war. the last of phyllis young as coffee harvest is laid out to try. one broken i see i grew up in a poor family. i didn't have any shoes and walked through the streets barefoot with my disability. when i turned 7 my father didn't want me to go to school and you know if i know that he had to go away or that in this way. where my mother didn't want that either because we had neither money nor whom to live from my but my father finally relented and i wrote myself but. you're fully. in the square back then there were no female teachers from the issue in the main so i took a course to be able to work with children if that's on course up the lawyer what
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the other half will mean you. if they need to people who worked in the coffee plantations on the coast were treated badly and poorly paid and i heard that there were no nice in themselves in filth and he'll yes quit tella yes if the lot of them from the lohan thing ever lets protest for better wages women were at 1st it was just one or 2 yani tseng 3 or 4 go to organized and then they all went off to strike. in being a liquor both the military and the guerrillas sought support or wanted to know who was against them for ya or kin but i wasn't for the military or the guerrillas your normal i just wanted to work at the nickel and the governor you also hear from. the.
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who it was our war on puppet all were those again a year old is the boss claimed ya think i have gorillas at my finger. and it's these folks from the mountains son from a neighbor from china who'll who are getting me into such trouble so we going to send them packing people i came a letter like that a whole affair with the only d.h. did i see for myself that half the kidnappings began the mass abduction is in effect with the rough math in what.
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is good sound rules and then we heard of the massacre in south but then in. and sealed. and we were afraid. we thought we have to flee to the mountains throw away our lines rouser their cattle and we have let's. say being willing to listen to. the military came at 5 in the morning and called everyone together for love i know at 6 o'clock we had to be on the village square and that was the 23rd of march and when you threw them out of. it when i had all the men were gathered together in the catholic church they came out in pairs and in
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former said he's one he's not or both of them are and then they were led to the school and killed. i.e. they were shot dead just like that cuse to being get a yes ross. look at i get it but those 85 men who were killed weren't guerillas. my husband worked in china and in april 1082 he went to the school where he taught . with the children in the community. and then very honestly strung out the children he was. that was supposedly the truth would never get anywhere else in the children or $131415.00 or 18 years old it made no difference. the teachers were made to watch if they
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refused they were forced to hang the children because they would get. my husband lost his mind he didn't recognise his children anymore he didn't know me and. he died in 1902. this was because when the victims were buried the military sent the women away. they said go to santa delfina. because soon your homes will be on fire. and so they burn down the village so. there goes more than $300.00 houses for just 2 weren't front to the ground. where were you i was 20 years old there were 30 of us boys and they forced us to work for the military.
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but i never killed anyone i'm not the kind of person who kill anybody i'm a decent man. but those involved are mentioned here at. the security forces i think a lot. on the 23rd of march and 1982 want them on military join the security forces i think a lot better luck to massacre the village of it all. their names are here. and the civil war lasted until 99624 years in total. 200000 people were killed most of them my us. the fight against small guerrilla groups with used as a pretense to conduct a war of annihilation against the indigenous population. similarly after my
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husband's death i was left to my own basics kids will i cared for them when they went to school but not university the one i had no more strength and with the rise . in guatemala 70 percent of the land is owned by just 3 percent of the population. very modest holdings 23000 small farmers have fought hard to achieve economic independence and that respect. when ordered items will that shows coffee's importance. if. you will for it ensures our family's survival off a 1000000. people it's the only problem we can actually live.
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from but out there you. small scale farmers organization fed. is now guatemala's largest domestic coffee producer. a co-operative places a special emphasis on educating women something that's not self evident in this traditionally patriarchal society. rosa mendez from the key chain people is on friday coca-cola as board of directors. there are a few problems in the region as you know face start with you're a woman so your place is in the kitchen so it's more where you and you're going to anything either because your husband will take care of you get the 50 m. ikey that ends. mendez training to be an executive at freddie coca-cola as a co-op member she's entitled to financial assistance to. people can north of the
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loan we can get from physical coward is very helpful for us women to bite on the foot of us because at present it's impossible to get one or bank. is simple simply opt in there. in her village rosa mendez encourages other women to emancipate themselves. with him as a must import bank the part of the most important message for women is that even if we've never studied even if we don't have any to promise of got a bonus we can still learn everything there must be some of this nothing is impossible it's simple feebly. the sierra. mountain range lies in northwestern guatemala global warming has reduced the danger of frost at these high elevations that benefits the co-op members from told us on tevita. their fathers who were forced to go and work on the
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coast put back coffee with them when they returned to the mountains but now people here are worried in recent years the price for a bag of coffee has fallen from around $200.00 u.s. $1.00 to $100.00 yet the expenses are just as high. i just don't it's not enough the price is too low. in order to quarterback softly on my shahadah identity all has to explain to the cooperatives members that they are reliant on the world markets. up and. get them. to the current prices are dependent on the international price of coffee. and i'd be happy. but he also has some good news a japanese bias is prepared to pay $25.00 more for a 46 kilograms sack of coffee. on herring that those
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who still have some coffee in storage decide to sell it quickly. coffee determines the rhythm of life for many guatemalans the fruits of their labors help people around the world wake up each morning get producing coffee is full of headaches that can rob it's grow as of sleep. these coffee cherries are being harvested in toto centauri turn near the mexican border i heard. donna feliciana de vo fills her baskets. her husband domingo and son by celio load the sacks into their pickup. domingo has been growing coffee since he was a child. look
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at a use that i will have a our fathers worked on the coast in the theme on the b. i think us were good you know because there was nothing here just corn potatoes and beans. but then they began planting copy themselves as animals and i got 3. here each month family processes that own coffee. using a machine until you naleo freeze the beans from the flesh of the coffee cherry then there washed. the 5 sacks of coffee cherries harvested eels just one sack of pop too much coffee where the beam system enclosed in the house. during the day the coffee is raked hourly to ensure even drawing in case of rain it must be brought in quickly it takes
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a few days for the coffee to achieve the desired moisture content of exactly an 11.5 percent but donna feliciana doesn't need a measuring device to tell when it's ready. out of some gay or whatever the name i know in my heart when it's reached that point muda otherwise the coffee gets tried out and has no taste anymore or narnia and at the end. domingo wants to offer his son a better life one that's easier than his. growing coffee is too much hard work looking after the bushes the harvest calling the sacks so i decided that my son shouldn't follow in my footsteps and york that it would be better if he went to school with a student. ma'am is one of the 21 mayan languages spoken in guatemala where the moms comprise one of the largest ethnic groups.
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and using a world of year when when i came to the city there was a group of misty souls we thought they were better than us and with these with this one so you start to doubt yourself. bands that maybe they are better than us because they speak spanish or to work out and buy new york here but they were in my head i thought a miner is as intelligent as a misty so maybe even more. there's this that was always in my mind so i was able to fulfill my dreams yes he's ok kim so envious where in the photo you can stand with. any a works for fed as an advisor but to make his dreams come true he had to get his way at 10 1st. you know. i got my high school diploma and that's all my parents wanted so when we thought i wanted to go on to study at the university. i told them
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if you can help me i'll go to the usa your way but if i hadn't been able to go to university to be in the u.s. today things though. fortunato pappy hope azaleas uncle is a history teacher. he's a step lish to a small museum where he presents the history and culture of his people. it was my us where the miners explanations for the creation of the world and run as near the elements of nature water air the sun and the mound. i mean i really feel about the christian church demonized are my own religion and for them it was the work of devils and say cows and things state that way until
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close to the end of the 20th century. on january 29th 1996 a peace treaty was signed and only since then have we had freedom of religion. that a. civil war try to get a mass exodus history came back to haunt the u.s. . you know. the emigration began in 190182000 needles and when the 1st people went to the united states and send money home. to his neighbors saw how those folks were better off. of the squares the list that he made and then many of the 1st emigrants began to smuggle their countrymen where you had this but there are lots of people smugglers here and many have become millionaires just so we are not a people are no longer living to an island but rather due to the lack of jobs while
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the winters that i was so the emigration to the us continues in me that. has 6 children to feed her husband. her son son tell us explains why his brother left the family if you have a question but if the price of coffee has fallen steadily and so my brother who's before the oldest said that it's no longer enough to feed all of us. so he decided to go to the states. friends and cousins money together until he had enough to pay the people smugglers. that's how it was. but then on route immigration officers caught him. 3 months in jail but was released on bail that's the situation now. god only
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knows what will happen to him. but remember those iraqi. the usa supported quite a majlis government in preventing land reform and oppressing its indigenous peoples now as a mayan gods are seeking vengeance and it's doubtful that even building a border wall will help. and they call exports a half a 1000000 bags of coffee every round the world. each farmer receives $1.00 to $1.00 and a half u.s. dollars per pound. that's enough coffee for consumers to brew 50 cups of each other . so most of the money goes to the traders sale. now isn't complaining. you can feel me. i think it would help us much more if the transnational companies purchasing their products paid
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taxes where the goods are produced and sold. it's just a new kind of colonialism one that really needs dismantling of these most interests it's simply not right to nuclear or. the things of interest. one way to maximize profits is to roast the coffee themselves. the co-op members are already supplying the local market with their own been. in the coffees aroma there are hints of a better past and the scent of a new freedom. you have to fight for your dreams but into the you must be enterprising and then you have to constantly better yourself you need to have this vision fight and recognize opportunities because opportunities do exist.
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