i pull for quality ones. and our main 1st. then the beans are laid out to try. possible for several but the 1st of their always come times in which prices are low but it is but in the good times you have 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 while good was good food got it 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 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 really noisy and before gen. 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. in guatemala city. he's been a member of the famous co-operative since the very start. for you. this is where the strings of the world markets the coffee after old. coffee was one of the 1st truly global commodity nice. and for the stock exchange guatemalans small farmers are connected to the whole wide 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 maya population and my has received support from 3rd world organizations around the world to. hear about that bounder was so good at that i 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 a ball and then willy cameron said that concept had no future they were born in it or what do we do when the day came when we stopped receiving any development hey we better get to work ourselves. 4th. quarter 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 price. i wasn't prepared to do that so i called switzerland right away to ask what i

should do you know go from domonic 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 a stroller because we were small. i resisted that and it was clear they thought i was fairly my own nest and had no future at the company so all. goes into account. now then came to the fed as an advisor. he became the organizations director. when the very 1st thing i tried to make clear to them was trying to solve your fuel cells is a lot that need don't wait for someone to arrive with the gold say the life is gone slap but that just doesn't happen. all co we have to tackle the problems ourselves

and see if we can get some support. my don't say aid any more it's been struck from my vocabulary creates dependency and that's something no one should have. 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 behind all those ideas. good i think the most important

thing 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. on the us we showed them something else. that they could be proud of their own work of what they produced high quality coffee. they look at. a world away from here coffee 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. francisco. 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 when i worked on a coffee far. more choice 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 when used to work as

a forced labor out on a coffee plantation or. the family converses in the maya language issue. while. i was born here in this modest area in the village and. i agree 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 the restored my father would help me with a couple of handfuls of coffee so that way i got my 3 tortillas the beer.

donna feliciano silvio lives in a bag 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 bucket 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 you know if not that he had to go away at that and that's where. we 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 rode myself from school up but. your folly. 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 in that course up the lawyer what of her own me neal. if they're in need of people who worked in the coffee plantations on the coast were treated badly and poorly paid and i heard that they were ok nice and themselves in those and yes quick tele yes if the lot of them from the left hand they ever lets protest 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 i were. 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 join all i just wanted to work on the corner gaffer you know your 3 year. old.

who it was our war your puppet 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 people i came a letter like that a whole affair with the only later did i see for myself that how the kidnappings began the mass abduction is in effect with the rough masses what.

this town was then we heard of the message. then in. and sealed. 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. the. say being willing to listen for. 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 and that

was the 23rd of march. and when i said 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. i.e. they were shot dead just like that my cues to being get a yes ross across on the kid i get it but those 85 men who were killed weren't guerillas. my husband worked in child and april 982 he went to the school where he taught and i was with the children in the community in your home only that in this immunity. and then very very strong on the children. that was supposedly the truth would never get. the children or 131415 or 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. the form of. 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 santo delfino. because soon your homes will be on fire. and so they burned down the village so. there goes more than $300.00 houses just to want

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 need to watch them on military join the security forces i think a lot better luck to massacre the village of it all because their names are here. and 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 basics kids i cared for them when they went to school but not university the one i had no more strength and with a rise. 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 the respect. in order to install that shows coffee's importance. if.

it ensures our family's survival in that awful 1000000. people it's the only problem we can actually live. with it but them but are they. small scale farmers organization federico gaga is now guatemala's largest domestic coffee producer. the 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 unfair they call cutaways board of directors. that if you have 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 are going to harish anything either because your husband will take care of you. know. that iran's role as a mendez trained to be an executive at freddie coca-cola as

a co-op member she's entitled to financial assistance to you it could 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. 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 to 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 cut back there's nothing is impossible now there 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 fought 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 audit the course of the italy on my heart of delhi or you has to explain to the cooperatives members that they are reliant on the world markets. up and. 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 of sleep. these coffee cherries have been harvested in toto centauri turn near the mexican border. down our feliciana deal fills her baskets. her husband domingo and sunbeds helio load the sacks into their pickup.

domingo has been growing coffee since he was a child. that i will have a new our fathers worked on the coast nothing 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 coffee themselves as i was in that graphic. here each month family processes that own coffee. using a machine uncle 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 to munch coffee with the beams the 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 feliciana doesn't need a measuring device to tell when it's ready. you know it over the net and know in my heart when it's reached that point meter otherwise the coffee gets dried out and has no taste and he'll no narnia not in. 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 out of 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 drought is through the.

mom is one of the 21 my own languages spoken in guatemala where the members comprise one of the largest ethnic groups. and you know. when i came to the city there was a group of misty so's we thought they were better than us and with the sun so you start to doubt yourself. bands that maybe they are better than us because they speak spanish or to work out and when you're here but they were in my head i thought a miner is as intelligent as a misty so maybe even more or mccord you know this is that was always in my mind so i was able to fulfill my dreams yes lisa gave me him so in the us where in the photo young sound with. only 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 and be in the u.s. today as those of you. in. fortunato pappy hope as. is a history teacher. is a step lish to a small museum where he presents the history and culture of his people as my us where the maya is explanations for the creation of the world and revere 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 safe 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. the civil war triggered a mass exodus history came back to haunt the us. can you know they don't if the saddle the immigration began in 190182000 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 that he made and then many of the 1st i'm a prince began to smuggle their countrymen where you study

a lot of there are lots of people smugglers here and many have become millionaires which is where you are now they people are no longer living to violence but rather due to the lack of jobs while the flint is that i'll also the emigration into the us continues in me that assume that us 1000. donna. has 6 children to feed her husband died young. first son son tell us explains why his brother left the family if you have a question the price of coffee has fallen steadily and so my brother who's my 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.

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. the usa supported guatemala government in preventing land reform and oppressing its indigenous people. now as 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 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. 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. off and woods just a new kind of colonialism one that really needs dismantling. most it's simply not right duke with. a student the sense of into 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 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 but in the you must be enterprising and then you have to constantly better yourself be hording you need to

have this vision fight and recognize opportunities because opportunities if you exist yet. exist in a particular. any other time it's been the interests of the stock down upon i conducted the best musicians she. could run to make maintain. the search. constant. exclusive on our 20.

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