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 basics kids will i cared for them when they went to school but not university although the one i had no more strength and with life. in guatemala 70 percent of the land is owned by just 3 percent of the population. on their very modest holdings 23000 small farmers have fought hard to achieve economic independence and that respect. when ordinary people that shows copies importance. if. it ensures our family's survival is metaphor 1000000. people.

it's the only problem we can actually live. reports from but often they are. small scale farmers organization federico gaga is now guatemala as 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. that if you have problems in the region has a face start with you're a woman so your place is in the kitchen. and you're going to harris anything either because your husband will take care of you why do you go with the amica that ends. rosa mendez trained to be an executive at freddie coca-cola as

a co-op member she's entitled to financial assistance to. be broken off 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 a bank bank or 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 the part of the most important message of 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 fit but there must be some of this nothing is impossible it's impossible. the sierra. mountain range lies in northwestern guatemala global warming has reduced the danger of frost 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 port 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 but if you can order the torture back it's awfully hard to delhi all has to explain to the cooperatives members that they are reliant on the world markets. happens. yet there it is you know the current prices are dependent on the international price of coffee. will be . 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 if sleep. these coffee cherries are being harvested in toto center every time never mexican border. don't offer luciana 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 at us rather have a new our father's worked on the coast on the b. i think us were good because there was nothing here just corn potatoes and beans. but then they began planting copy themselves as i was in the cafe. here each month family processes that own coffee. using a machine uncle you now leo 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 2 months crossing where the beans are still 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 a few days for the coffee to achieve the desired moisture content of exactly 11.5 percent but donna phyllis yana doesn't need a measuring device to tell when it's reading. thank you and some you know whatever the name i know in my heart when it's reached that point mierda at the west the coffee gets tried out and has no taste in here or narnia and at the end. domingo wants to offer his son the better life one that's easier than his. debut for the growing coffee is too much hard work looking after the bushes the harvest are 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 my own languages spoken in

guatemala where the members comprise one of the largest ethnic groups. but you know. when i came to the city there was a group of misty souls we thought they were better than us and with the south since then 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 but if they were in my head i thought a miner is as intelligent as a misty so maybe even more. you know there's this that was always in my mind so i was able to fulfill my dreams yes he's ok came sonia's where in the photo with. any a works for fed as an advisor but to make his dreams come true he had to get his way at home 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 you know i'd be in the u.s. today because of those of you. in. fortunato pappy opus indios 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 revered 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 seek out 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. civil war trade get a mass exodus history came back to the us. at the start of the emigration began in 1901. 1000 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. out of the squares the last 30 minutes and many of the 1st time a prince began to smuggle their countrymen and where you had this body a lot of there are lots of people smugglers here and many have become millionaires

just so we are not a people are no longer leaving due to no violence or love but rather due to the lack of jobs while of whimpers that i was so the emigration to the us and continue to lead me that i soon. donna. has 6 children to feed her husband died young. his son santos explains why his brother left the family he had to question 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 that's as if where they're on route immigration officers caught him. 3 months in jail but was released

on bail that's the situation now and. god only knows what will happen to him. that's better premed i meant that they are going to. the usa supported quite a modest government in preventing language form 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. that they call exports the hof a 1000000 bags of coffee and 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. 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. its most he's simply not right to clear. the sins of the 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 beans. 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 that you must be enterprising and then you have to constantly better yourself you need to have this vision and recognize opportunities and because opportunities do exist where you

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