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. coffee grown in guatemala. it's sorted by weight and graded by hand then it's ready to face fortune around the globe at the processing facility of coffee growers cooperation federation. and its premises are in pain and near the capital to watch him on the city. the representatives of small scale coffee farmers cafe here once a year if their general meeting. here guatemalan coffee gets a human face to history. reps from over 100 cooperatives throughout the country have traveled to pailin they all supply the federation with coffee. boys the secret to

a good coffee is the work that goes into making it. most of the small farmers here are indigenous maya people. i mean i lay there and they thought we were dark dirty and don't void of intelligence. came to us many of their forefathers were the slaves of plantation anis. and little southward with our fathers and grandfathers were driven off their land. and then they were forced to work for the germans were mostly miners 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 didn't 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 associate don't know so what amala needs are more just and equal society privileges for their view. this is to achieve this goal in a dispensed with traditional development model s. . how societies those on them i don't say aid anymore it's been struck from my vocabulary in 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 so. the missing. are in the intrapreneur a logan a zation with a social focus and that aims to distribute our profits downwards. women are among those who stand to profit. for their. we can do this we're capable

of learning everything so nothing's impossible to. 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.

terma he filmed the eruption last 18 relatives. he himself barely escaped. the co-operative union who easter 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 they're moving. back if they move very very. i feel very brittle 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 well take care of the food and see what i can do about the tractor and local support. courtney is originally from switzerland in 1980 came to quite amala as the sales rep for a coffee trader he traveled the country paying physics 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 of long song it was alarming to see what people had to do to survive their. view.

these people who couldn't see. on the other hand the people had a sense of the 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 called to her yet. somehow you don't have the feeling that a real taste has emerged. in the years can the secondary think of it in. the maya 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 support of the get

a yes. they can of those farmers up with. us suspected that we were supporting the military but we were so we got caught in the crossfire and to save ourselves we fled to mexico. but i made. as a result of peace talks in 1995 the maya families from whom we still return and founded a co-operative at the foot of the 5 ok now. now they must once again search the new land it's a never ending odyssey. 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 us it was here that the history of coffee production began in guatemala.

so you know i'm from the ethnic growth on mother love that up around this area of without a better part of the world and like me these company arrows have learned how to plant coffee from their forefathers. out of perth. 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 them on this principle 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.

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

this i will have mine is it of music was only my miss that me as an 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 sell in these coins and the owners shop there so they were practically the coffee producers layout would be that probably by. looking for clues at the cemetery in co van the capital of the department of out of the us. until the 2nd world war broke out this area was not actually in german hands. the german set this was to provide the jim an empire with a reliable supply of coffee

a 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. german families owned over 100 states in out of our past 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 the marple spend them in any other store only on your own foam the next morning a member grew up in 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 in the hope that their midler told them they should return to germany and support the war effort many germans left and gave up their status report we have companeros here in alt i bet a pause he stayed on the farm. to this day it doesn't belong to them it still registered in the germans name by this is accused of a number of other money is. but coffee also stimulated just sense of resistance. it was me by the way up when my father worked for the german climbers. 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 trait members of the akki cooperation in out of our past washed their freshly harvested coffee cherries. they then separate the business from the fruit. after being left if and meant for 24 hours the beans are washed for a 2nd time to remove any remaining pulp. the good bright beams sink to the bottom of the washing can now. move. on ripe old poor quality ones. and our me. then the beans are laid out to dry. possible whatever about the president there always come

times in which prices are low but in the good times 3 of them we've been able to pay off our debts and update our production facilities in both that's improve the plantations about very able to day we have companeros who's plantations can rival the big ones while good while good food got good 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 loan danas during the civil war . when bomb iraq when the military realized that the guerrillas were trying to contact us i will but they started following us. up in the 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 hometown of coven. his name was on the military's black list. he found shelter and work with.

him on the city. he's been a member of the famous co-operative since the very start to feel good whether. this is where the strings of the world markets the coffee after pulled. 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 wide world. who 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 maya population the mayans received support from 3rd world organizations around the well. here's the only worry about

that bounder was so good that they practically turns medical card walk into a charity of the living say it was a place where we could ask for support. and then only came over and said that concept had no future we are born with it or what do we do when the day came when we stopped receiving any development pay we better get to work ourselves with us or . 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 bribes. to be able. to treat so. i wasn't prepared to do that so i called switzerland right away to ask what i should do you go from the money to save my boss at the time said i didn't

know how things worked in such countries that paying bribes was common practice and it had to be done 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 at the company so all this new macos you to. consider. then came to the fed they called 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 problems fuel cells that need don't wait for someone to arrive with a gold say life but that just doesn't happen we all go we have to tackle the problems ourselves and see if we can get some support. them i don't say aid anymore it's been struck from my vocabulary creates dependency and that's

something no one should miss you should be able to develop freely in 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 a swiss one and that of a small farmer from guatemala. the result was 500 percent growth but at the because all the cooperatives in the federation we banded together to behind those ideas. good i think the most important thing or brought to federico was the idea that small farmers needed to take themselves seriously and. before that they and their organizations were programmed

to peddle misery to inspire. me syria or. the u.s. we showed them something else. that they could be proud of their own work of what they produced some 40 years 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. is a small farmer. he lives together with his children and grandchildren serious person i knew in the 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 when i worked on a coffee far. more choice for you. your go across. in this remote region of mountainous northern gladsome allah another small scale farmer don has interests have your hand is visiting his father now 100 years old when 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. 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 they are. 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 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. donna phillis ya know silvio lives in a 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. but i see i grew up in a poor family you know 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 you know that he had to go away yes but that's where. we my mother didn't want that either because we had neither money nor live from my but my father finally relented and i rode myself but. your folly. in the square back then there were no female teachers from the issue in the system and so i took a course to be able to work with children and if. that's all good stuff the lawyer

would rather have only. if they're in need the 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 in this yes with tele yes if there were a lot of them from the law in the everglades protests for better wages women were at 1st it was just one or 2 then 3 or 4 go to organized and then they all run to strike. the pub being a liquor both the military and the guerrillas sought support or wanted to know who was against them or yama or kin but i wasn't for the military or the guerrillas join all i just wanted to work on the corner gregory are your 3 he.

knew it was our war your puppet all were those again a year old is the boss claimed ya think i have guerrillas my thinker. and it's these folks from the mountain and his son from a neighbor from china who'll who are getting me into such trouble so we going to send them packing. i came a letter like that a whole affair with the only later did i see for myself that half the kidnappings began the nasa protectionists in effect with the rough math was.

this town was then we heard of the massacre in south. then in shallow cheney and sealed. and we were afraid. we thought we have to flee to the mountains why throw away our lines it's not good or vows or their credit i mean that. say being willing parasitical. the military came at 5 in the morning and called everyone together by now at 6 o'clock we had to be on the village square. that was the 23rd of march. and when i left all the men were gathered

together in the catholic church they came out in pairs and informers said he's one . or both of them are and then they were led to the school and killed. i.e. they were shot dead just like that accused of being get a yes ross. look at i get it but those 85 men who were killed weren't guerrillas see where i get the. my husband worked in child and april 982 he went to school where he taught and i was with the children in the community . and then was very honestly strong on the children who were wearing rubber boots that was supposedly truth because they were getting arrows and the children were 131418 years old it made no difference. the teachers were made to watch so 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 he didn't know me anymore. he died in 1902. this was impaired 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 burned down the village so. they lost more than $300.00 houses 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.

but i never killed anyone i'm not the kind of person who kill anybody i'm a decent man in. love but those involved are mentioned here at. the security forces. on the 23rd of march and i need to guatemala the military join the security forces i think a lot to massacre the village of it all back about their names are here. and the civil war lasted until 99624 years in total 200000 people were killed most of them. the fight against small guerrilla groups with used as a pretense to conduct a war of annihilation against the indigenous population. so morning 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 i had no will strengthen it or they live. 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 the respect. when ordinary people that shows coffee's importance. if. it ensures our family's survival metaphor a 1000000. people it's the only problem we can actually live.

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 was board of directors. there are a few problems in the region as in the face start with you're a woman so your place is in the kitchen thorson will carry you and you're going to herald anything either because your husband will take care of you. the anika that ends. mendez trained to be an executive at freddie coca-cola as a co-op member she's entitled to financial assistance to. north 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 he 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 wolf got a bonus we can still learn everything there must be some of this nothing is impossible now that is simple feebly. the sierra. less 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 brought 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 bullshit it's not enough the price is too low but if you can order the torture back it's awfully hard of delhi always has to explain to the cooperatives members that they are reliant on the world markets. happens. yet there it is the current prices are dependent on the international price of coffee. spilled coffee. 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 have been harvested in toto centauri turn near the mexican border. don't often luciana divino 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 a yes rather have a new our father's worked on the coast on the day i think us you know because there was nothing here just corn potatoes and beans. but then they began planting copy themselves as animals and graphic. here each month family processes that own coffee. but. using a machine uncle you now leo freeze the beans from the flesh of the coffee cherry then they're washing. the 5 sacks of coffee cherries harvested yields just one sack of pop to munch coffee for the beans a 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 ready. so gay or whatever then there's i know in my heart when it's reached that point of the west the coffee gets tried out and has no taste and he or narnia and. domingo wants to offer his son better life one that's easier than his. if you're 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 with your that it would be better if he went to. a studio. mom is one of the 21 my own languages spoken in guatemala where the moms comprise

one of the largest ethnic groups. 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 this with this and so you start to doubt yourself. because 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 my is as intelligent as a misty so maybe even more. you know there's a that was always in my mind so i was able to fulfill my dreams you see so give me . where in the photo you found with does india 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 to be in the u.s. today it's going to be. fortunato pappy hope azaleas uncle is a history teacher. he says step lish the 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 revere the elements of nature water air the sun and the mound. of my soul really feel about the christian church demonized are my religion and that for them it was the work of devils and saint house 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 even a. civil war try get a mass exodus history came back to the us. you know. the emigration began in 1901 a mess 2000 meals and when the 1st people went to the united states and send money home. with a neighbor saw how those folks were better off. of the squares the list to be made and then many of the 1st time a prince began to smuggle their countrymen and where your body a lot of there are lots of people smugglers here and many have become millionaires which is where you are now today people are no longer leaving due to the violence but rather due to the lack of jobs while the winters that i was so the emigration

into the us continues in me that i soon. donna. has 6 children to feed her husband died young. his son santos 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 pooled their money together until he had enough to pay the people smugglers. that's how it was. and though this. then on route immigration officers caught him and spent 3 months in jail but was released on bail and that's the situation now and. god only

knows what will happen to him he does better with the man at the back only. the usa supported quite a man this government in preventing language form and oppressing its indigenous people must now as a mayan gods are seeking vengeance and it's doubtful that even building up border wall will help. that they call exports a half 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 transnational companies purchasing the 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 interest it's simply not right to close. the see self interest. one way to maximize profits is to roast the coffee themselves. the co-op member has already supplying the local market with beans. in the coffee there are hints of at a cost and. you freedom. you have to fight for your dreams but into that you must be enterprising and then you have to constantly better yourself and you need to have this vision and recognize opportunities because opportunities do exist when you ask.

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