those hundreds of other winners celebrated across spain after bagging smaller songs gordo which translates as the $51.00 has a total pool of $2400000000.00 euros schoolchildren sang out the winning numbers to an empty theater. you're watching news live from berlin coming up next as our documentary film will be taking a look at how maya farmers are winning back their freedom and guatemala i'm terry martin thanks watched. by calling me oh and i'm game did you know that 17 trillion land of them are killed worldwide sure but it's not just the animals that will suffering it's clear violence if you want to know how old when clicked off the priest and the hunch was strange to us as we think to listen to our podcast on the green.

coffee groaning glad to mana. it thought it by weight and graded by hand. then it's ready for export around the globe at the processing facility of coffee growers cooperation federation 30 coca-cola and its premises are in pain and me of the capital to watch him on the safety. of. the representatives of small scale coffee farmers cafe here once a year if their general meeting. here. coffee gets a human face to history. reps from over 100 cooperatives throughout the country have traveled to pailin they all supply the federation we coffee. with the secret to

a good coffee use the work that goes into making it. most of the small farmers here are indigenous maya people. who have been and are you there and they thought we were dark dirty and don't void of intelligence not you believe painters many of their forefathers were the slaves of plantation anice. little southward with our fathers and grandfathers were driven off their land. and then they were forced to work for the germans. as co-op members then now firmly in control of their own destinies but these coffee growers have witnessed some terrible things more important the military did not care at all they killed women children whole families they burned down our houses destroyed our crops. from switzerland has headed the federation of coffee growers corporative coca-cola

for 30 years during that time he's turned this organization of small scale farmers into quite amala 2nd largest coffee exporter despite resistance from the economic elites what the mullen is to see don't know so what a mullah needs a more just and equal society not privileges for their view. is to achieve this goal gotten it dispensed with traditional development model s. . how societies those on whom i don't say aid anymore it's been struck from either can be leery of aid creates dependency and that's something no one should have. said oh the co-ops have become an example of how progress can be made in a poor country. missing. the intrapreneur a little guys ation with a social focus and that aims to distribute our profits downwards one. of the women now are among those who stand to profit. for their. we can do this we're

capable of learning everything so nothing's impossible the. thank . the volcanic or fire volcano is most active volcano. even months after the deadly eruption of june 28th the devastation is still evident. the disaster took many by surprise. a river of hot ash gas and fragments of rock rushed down at a speed of over 100 kilometers per hour. around 200 people lost their lives.

now tomake phones the eruption last 80 relatives. he himself barely escaped. the co-operative union who we started didn't lose any members but they were all forced to leave their homes and now their harvest is just a fraction of what it once was. when the fire volcano erupted the coffee farmers lost a large part of their plantations. you know them of their good luck with your bare feet they move very very. little which court now has been the managing director of their cooperatives umbrella organization for 3 decades together with local members examines the damage. part of the river of scorching hot lava which

reached temperatures of up to 600 degrees celsius flowed through the coffee plantations. the coop's members want their organization to keep on delivering food and they also need a tractor. perfect may well take care of the food and see what i can do about the tractor. the local supply also. is originally from switzerland in 1980 he came to quite amala as the sales rep for a coffee trader he traveled the country paying visits to the maya peoples. almost. back then it was more of an adventure because you also went to the highlands and mixed with people. who say. they were still stuck in the cold war but at least they were slowly moving away from the worst a very long song it was alarming to see what people had to do to survive their.

view. these people who couldn't see the homeless on the other hand the people had a sense of basic trust. they know who means well and who's up to no good. luck so i always had a good feeling in my heart apart from the cold war situation which still permeates guatemala to this day. in guatemala. somehow you don't have the feeling that a real peace has emerged yet there won't. be a scream the 2nd a think of it in a. the mayan population continues to be subject to racism under the pretext of fighting communism the military killed thousands of indigenous peoples all turned them into refugees. during the civil war in guatemala we were persecuted by the military because they thought we supported the

get a yes. they. suspected that we were supporting the military. so we got caught in the crossfire and to save ourselves we fled to mexico. with me. as a result of peace talks in 1995 the maya families from whom we still returned and founded a co-operative at the foot of the fire. now they must once again search for a new land it's a never ending. we take a journey back in time to explore the past of what a model as indigenous peoples. back to the region rubin dario pacquet comes from. he's visiting a co-op operated by the pub com g m i a people in out of a help us it was here that the history of coffee production began in guatemala.

so you that i know i'm from the catchy ethnic grown mother love that up around this area of without are better parts of the world and like me these company arrows have learned how to plant coffee from their forefathers. for me. now it's time to harvest the coffee. that. europeans 1st brought to the plants to the americas in 1720 to this day coffee is one of guatemala as principal cash crops. for the coffee has historically been a source of those dependency and liberation. coffee created riches for the few that's the cost of the many.

says than they normally would have. only recently did the pecan she go into the coffee business for themselves by forming the co-operative. in 850 guatemala industrialized coffee farming. the government souls the indigenous peoples community property to rich german immigrants. yeah you are struck head on let them know they brought with them the technology and knowledge to improve the

coffee production meant little southward and essentially our forefathers were driven off their land and then forced you to work for the german film this i will have mine is it of music was only my mistake me as the germans had their own coins equalness was more narrow and there what they paid my father and grandfather with the whole equal this was more net you could only spend these coins in the owner's shop. so they were practically the coffee producers layout would be that. looking for clues that the cemetery in co van the capital of the department of out of the high pass. until the 2nd world war broke out this area was not actually in german hands.

the german set this was to provide the gym an empire with a reliable supply of coffee and deal with the guatemalan government allowed them to retain that jemma nationality. the wealthy plantation owners compelled the maya people to work as forced labor has. aided by a law that for paid vagrancy. german families owned over 100 states in out of our pass today one of the old manor houses serves as a hotel and a museum dedicated to germany's colonial ambitions it once belonged to the tow my family who emigrated from frankfurt in 888. selvin lopez pelléas is

a coin collector with an interest in guatemalan history he's collected over 100 different koreans formally used us currency on coffee plantations it's a model where you can save them up or spend them in any other store only on your own foam that's a member that i think the era of the german coffee barons in guatemala ended soon after the outbreak of world war 2 many germans left of their own free will to join the fighting. the hope that their medlar told them they should return to germany and support the war after many germans left and gave up their a status report we have companeros here in alt i bet a pause who stayed on the farm. to this day it doesn't belong to them it's still registered in the germans name by this is a he's done a number of other mum is. but coffee also stimulated a sense of resistance. it was me by the way up when my father worked for the german

miners. and he told us how little by little he brought beings home to plant his own coffee. but on both of us got hit by a list. it's a traditional trade members of the anarchy cooperation in out of our past washed their freshly harvested coffee cherries. they then separate the business from the fruit. after being left to fend meant for 24 hours the beams are washed for a 2nd time to remove any remaining pulp. the good bright the miss sink to the bottom of the washing can now. move.

on ripe old poor quality ones flint and our midst. then the beans are laid out to dry. possible whatever the press will bear always come times in which prices are low but in the good times we have that we've been able to pay off our debts and update our production facilities in both us that's improve the plantations a very able to day we have companeros who's plantations can rival the big ones was it was good for you got it on the profits reaped from coffee growing allowed to reap in 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 the military realized that the guerrillas were trying to contact us i will but they started following us. up in 1980 when the soldiers blew up the buildings of the university here in karbala. noisy and of agenda back then some

40 years ago ruben dario pacquet had to flee his home town of cova. his name was on the military's blacklist. he found shelter and work with. him on the city. he's been a member of the famous co-operative since the very start. for you. this is where the strings of those world markets the coffee shop full. coffee was one of the 1st truly global commodity nice and with the stock exchange glad to mullins small farmers are connected to the whole world. he trained as a banker put the co-op's 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 my a population and mine has received support from 3rd world organizations around the world the. years we already know that boughner was so good they practically turns medical card walk into a charity of the living say it was a place where we could ask for support they'd up with and then willy cameron said that concept had no future they were born into it or what do we do when the day came when we stopped receiving any development day we better get to work ourselves . for. now was an outcast himself when he started working for federico. 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 bribes. to be. rude to them i wasn't prepared to do that so i called switzerland right away to ask

what i should do you know go from the money to save my boss at the time said i didn't know how things worked in such countries signaled that paying bribes was common practice and it had to be done a stroller because we were small when. you hold me hold and i resisted that and it was clear they thought i was fairly my own nest and had no future of the company so all this new macos into account. well then came to the fed a coke at the well 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 fuel cells bought that need don't wait for someone to arrive with the gold say the life is gone slap but that just doesn't happen we 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 a creates dependency and that's something no one should have. you should be able to develop a free leg and a 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 guatemala. the result was 500 percent growth but it because all the cooperatives in the federation we banded together to hind was ideas. good i think the most important thing

brought to federico was the idea that small farmers needed to take themselves seriously and this. or that they and their organizations were programmed to peddle misery to inspire. me said here or this in the. u.s. we showed them something else. that they could be proud of their own work of what they produced some 40 years of high quality coffee. they look at. a world away from here coffee. 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 1 may fall off and suppressed only now that they've achieved

economic independence many able to speak of the poverty and horror they've experienced. 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 mortuaries for you. your go across. in this remote region of mountainous northern guatemala another small scale farmer john haas into a severe hair is visiting his father now 100 years old klein used to work as

a forced labor on a coffee plantation or. the family converses in the maya language. while. i was born here in this modest area in the village and so. 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. where i was 7 the 1st time my brother and i accompanied our father to the coast. probably a 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 was and there were no tortillas then well there it was that is that my father would help me with a couple of handfuls of coffee so that way i got my 3 tortillas.

done after lisieux no silvio lives in the town in the department of key chain. she's raised 6 children largely on her own. her husband died in the aftermath of the guatemalan civil war. the last of phyllis young as coffee harvest is laid out to try. one before 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 do you want me to there's a school year and you know if i'm not there yet they go away with that and that's where. we my mother didn't want that either because we had neither the money nor whom to live from my but my father finally relented and i wrote myself but. your folly them in this way 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 is that course up the lawyer worked out of her own menial. if they need to people who worked in the coffee plantations on the coast were treated badly and poorly paid and i heard that they were ok nice in themselves and those of yes we can yes if the lot of them found the law in the everglades protesting for better wages women were at 1st it was just one or 2 then 3 or 4 go to organized and then they all went off to strike. the 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 around the corner grocery are your from.

you it was our war your path that all were those again a year old is the boss claimed ya think i have gorillas in my thinker. 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 if i clear my letter like article that is with a minute later did i see to myself that how the kidnappings began the mass abduction is in effect with the aftermath in what. the.

town was then we heard of the massacre in south. then in shallow che and seal chicken. and we were afraid. we thought we have to flee to the mountains why throw away our lines it's not good and well as i live my life we have less. to. say being more likely to see. the military came at 5 in the morning and called everyone together for love and now at 6 o'clock we had to be on the village square

. that was the 23rd of march and when you threw them out of school. and when i had all the men were gathered together in the catholic church they came out in pairs and informer said he's one he's not or both of them are and then they were led to the school and killed. they were shot dead just like that accused of being gary yes. but those 85 men who were killed weren't corellas. my husband worked in china and april 982 he went to the school where he taught that i work with the children in the community. and then very honestly they strung out the children who were in trouble that was supposedly the truth that they were garros and the children were 1314 but he said do you know

18 years old it made no difference if you are young a lot of the teachers were made to watch if they refused they were forced to hang the children because they would get. my husband lost his mind. he didn't recognise his children anymore but he didn't know me and. he died in 1902. this was unclear 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 just to 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. 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 i needed to watch the moment military join the security forces i think. to massacre the village of beyond all. their names are here. in the in the civil war lasted until 99624 years in total. 200000 people were killed most of them my in.

the fight against small guerrilla groups with used as a pretense to conduct a war of annihilation against the indigenous population. similarly after my husband's death i was left on my own 6 kids i cared for them when they went to school but not university the one i had no more strength left with a rise. in guatemala 70 percent of the land is owned by just 3 percent of the population. and. very modest holdings 23000 small farmers have fought hard to achieve economic independence and respect. the. one or 2 items bill that shows coffees importance. if.

it ensures our family's survival metaphor a 1000000. people it's the only problem we can actually live. with your bathroom but out there you. small scale farmers organization federico gaga 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 was 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 for small care and you're going to anything either because your husband will take care of you either up there in a queue that ends. mendez training to be an executive at freddie coca-cola or as

a co-op member she's entitled to financial assistance to. get a book and of the 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 is that you must import bank of the most important message for women is that even if we've never studied even if we don't have any diplomas got a bonus we can still learn everything they almost it's almost nothing is impossible neither is 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 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 truly loaded. in order to force a back it's awfully hard of delhi or 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. spilled in the. but he also has some good news

a japanese buyout is prepared to pay $25.00 more for a 46 kilograms sack of coffee. on herring that those 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 toddler son terry turn near the mexican border. don't often luciana day video fills her baskets. her husband domingo and son buzz ileo load the sacks into their pickup.

domingo has been growing coffee since he was a child. look at us that i will have a new our father's worked on the coast and nothing on the bay i think us will get you know because there was nothing here just corn potatoes and beans. but then they began planting copy themselves as animals and guffey. 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 yields just one sack of pop too much coffee with the beans a still in clovis 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 a few days for the coffee to achieve the desired moisture content of exactly 11.5 percent but donna feliciana doesn't need a measuring device to tell when it's ready. you know it over the net i know in my heart when it's reached that point a meter of the west the coffee gets dried out and has no taste anymore or narnia and at the end. domingo wants to offer his son better life one that's easier than his. debut 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 see. his studio. ma'am is

one of the 21 mayan languages spoken in guatemala where the members comprise one of the largest ethnic groups. when you know. when i came to the city there was a group of misty souls who we thought they were better than us and with the sun so you start to doubt yourself more winter because i know there is that maybe they are better than us because they speak spanish or to work out and buy new york here but that in my head i thought a miner is as intelligent as a misty so maybe even more. you know this is that was always in my mind so i was able to fulfill my dreams you see so give me concern us where in a concern for the younger son both. as an advisor but to make his dreams come true he had to get his way hits him 1st. you know. i

got my high school diploma and that's where parents wanted so when we thought i wanted to go on to study at the university. i told them 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. fortunato pappy opus's is a history teacher. he says step lish to a small museum where he presents the history and culture of his people. the mayas explanations for the creation of the world and revere the elements of nature and water air the sun and the mound.

i mean i really feel about the christian church demonized are my religion and that for them it was the work of devils and c.d.'s and things state that way until 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 it leave it at that. civil war try to get a mass exodus history came back to the us. which and you know they don't get this out of the emigration began in 198182000 needles and when the 1st people went to the united states and send money home. with a neighbor saw how those folks were better off. going to the squares the last 30 minutes and many of the 1st i'm aggressive began to smuggle their

countrymen in the study a lot of there are lots of people smugglers here and many have become millionaires which is where you are now lay people are no longer leaving to go on a little slower but rather due to the lack of jobs while the point is that i was so the emigration into the us and continue to lead me that i soon. donna. has 6 children to feed her husband. his son santos explains why his brother left the family he has a graphic it but if the price of coffee has fallen steadily and so my brother who's been 4th oldest said that it's no longer enough to feed all of us. so he decided to go to the states. friends and cousins pooled their money together until he had enough to pay the people smugglers. that's how it was. and though this way but then on route immigration officers caught him and then 3 months in jail but

was released on bail that's the situation now. god only knows what will happen to him it doesn't really matter i meant that they are going to. the usa supported quite a manas government in preventing language form and oppressing its indigenous people most now is a mayan gods are seeking vengeance and it's doubtful that even building a border wall will help. that they call exports a half a 1000000 bags of coffee you have around 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. in me. i think it would help us much more if the trans national companies purchasing their products paid taxes where the goods are produced and sold. it's just a new kind of colonialism one that really needs dismantling all these most kids simply not right to close with a student the things of interest think. one way to maximize profits is to roast the coffee themselves. the co-op members are already supplying the local market with their own being. in the coffee's aroma there are hints of a better past and the scent of a new freedom. you have to fight for your dreams you must be enterprising and then you have to constantly better yourself you need to have this

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