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ah, coffee grown in guatemala. it's sorted by weight and graded by hand. then it's ready to board around the globe that the processing facility of coffee grow with corporation federation co, cadillac. its premises are in pain in near the capital, collect him on the representative, the small scale coffee farmers gather here once a year. that general meeting here at marlin coffee gets a human face. and a history reps from over a 100 cooperatives throughout the country have traveled to pay, lynn. they all supply. the federation with coffee was a secret to a good coffee is the work that goes into making it. most of the small farmers here are indigenous maya people are you there?

if they thought we were dumb dirty and devoid of intelligence? no intell again, many of their forefathers with slaves. the plantation owners merciless our windows . our fathers and grandfathers were driven off their lan. yeah, and then they were forced to work for the germans, this was minus as co opt members, then now family in control of their own destiny. but these coffee, gro was, have witness some terrible things for the military didn't care at all. they killed women and children and families. they burned down our houses, destroyed our crops. i don't know. the model was a corner from switzerland federation of coffee grow as cooperative, had a coca cola for 30 years. during that time, he's turned this organization of small scale pharmacy in guatemala 2nd largest coffee export her despite resistance from the economic and the what the milan is to

see so no. so what's a model and needs a more just and equally non privileged to achieve this goal gotten to dispense with traditional development model house was that he's always on my don't say aid anymore. he's been struck from my vocabulary and how aide creates dependency. and that's something, no one should have the co op, have become an example of how progress can be made in a poor country. socio political, missing a new name written on for per larry logan is ation with a social focus. and that aims to distribute our profits downward. one green can help us. women are among those who stand profit fee for the we can do where capable of learning everything, so nothing is impossible. ah

the vulcan, and if we go all fire volcano is quite marla's most active volcano. even month after the deadly option of june 2018, the devastation is still evident. the disaster took many by surprise. a river as gas in fragments of rock rushed down at the speed of a 100 feet on or around. 200 people stand on the smoky murky films. the russian lost 80 rameses

he himself barely escaped the co operative union who easter didn't lose any members, but they were all forced to leave their home. and now the 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. for your time of day? yes, i did. i will. hey, courtney has been the managing director if that co operatives, umbrella broken is asian for 3 decades together with local members. he examines the damage part of the river of scorching hot lava which reached temperatures of up to 600 degrees celsius, flowed through the coffee plantation. the coops members, the organisation to keep on delivering food. and they also need

a tractor. perfect, or you may well take care of the food and see what i can do about the tractor. boy, look this up. we also all hi, cortner is originally from switzerland. in 1980. he came to guatemala as the sales rep for a coffee trader. he traveled the country, paying visit the maya, people's almost to say, you know this all back then it was more of an adventure because you also went to the highlands and mixed with people hoping why the who's going to well they wouldn't hold duck in the cold warnings of before, but at least they were slowly moving away from the worst of all who long from it was alarming to see what people had to do to survive yet a whole lot. he who could see on the, on the other hand, the people had

a sense of basic trial where they know who means will and who's up to no good slack. and so i always had a good feeling in my heart, apart from the cold war situation, which still permeates guatemala to this day. hold to include them all of the ticket or somehow you don't have the feeling that a real piece is emerged to be as the secondary speaker for it. and also the maya population continues to be subject to racism under the pretext of fighting communism. the military killed thousands of indigenous peoples or turned them into refugees or in conflict or amount to feeling what during the civil war. in guatemala, we were persecuted by the military because they thought we supported the getty arrows on the young. if they can sort of thumbs up or down the la area guerrilla suspected that we were supporting the military. but um, in the,

in those where it was, so we got caught in the crossfire, and to save ourselves, we fled to mexico. but to me as a result of the piece taught in 1995, the maya families from who easter returns and founded a cooperative at the foot of the 5. okay, now now they must, once again search for new land. it's a never ending odyssey why don't we take a journey back in time to explore the path of guatemala indigenous people back to the region. ruben terry pack a comes from he's visiting a co operated by the pecan chief. my people in algebra us. it was here that the history of coffee production began in guatemala. so either i'm from the tech chief ethnic group on another that this area of the world and like me,

these company arrows learned how to plant coffee from their forefathers. but it was our cafe me now it's time to harvest the coffee me. ready europeans 1st brought the plug to the america in 1722. this day. coffee is one of guatemala. the principal cash crop for the become g. coffee has historically been a source of those dependency and liberation. coffee created riches for the few. at the cost of the many that then they know early with only recently did the become,

she go into the coffee business for themselves by forming the co protest. ah, i meant to in 1850 guatemala, industrialized coffee farming. the government sold the indigenous peoples community property to rich german immigrants your head or let them know they brought with them the technology and knowledge to improve coffee production easy. i meant they were suppose i went and essentially us our forefathers were driven off there. laugh at me, i will and then forced to work for the german over the that film. this one was

minus eagles meizlish l minus the me on the germans had their own coins. equal ministers more now and they're what they pay my father and grandfather with the local equal ministers more net, you could only so in these go with the owners shown that they were practically the coffee produce. certainly lay i wouldn't. i wouldn't that probably be. but i looking for clues that the cemetery in coven, the capital of the department of out of the how can i until the 2nd world war broke out. this area was not actually in german hands. ah . the germans setters were to provide the german empire with a reliable supply of coffee,

a deal with the guatemalan government allowed them to retain that german nationality. the wealthy plantation owners compelled the maia people to work as forced labourers. it by a law that forbade vagrancy. mm. german families owned over $100.00 states and out of our path. today, one of the old men or houses, serves as a hotel and a museum dedicated to germany's colonial ambitions. it once belonged to the tow. my family emigrated from frankfurt in 1880 a self in lopez pillar, as is a coin collector with an interest in guatemala history. he's connected over a 100 different coins, formerly used the currency on coffee plantation. if

a normal play and save them up, we'll spend them in any other store only on your own firm. the comment won't come into that. i think the era of the german coffee barons in guatemala ended soon after the outbreak of world war 2. many germans left, if their own free will to join the fighting, hit the hook that they had learned, told them they should return to germany and so forth. the war effort wasn't that many germans left him and gave up there a steamship, wadel. but we have company here and also vet upon who said on the farm, the thing back to this day it doesn't belong to them. it still registered in the germans name be up by this is a he said that number of l. m. i missed but coffee also stimulated resistance while me by the way up, but my father worked for the german minus. you put up. and he told us how little by little and he brought being home to plant his own coffee. rambles is for us cafe

palace. it's the traditional trade members as the key cooperation and have or a path wash, their freshly harvested coffee, cherry. they then separates the news from the fruit i after being left and then for 24 hours, the beans washed for a 2nd time to remove any remaining po the the good right to be, to the bottom of the washington, now unripe poor, poor quality, one, float and i removed then the beans are laid out to dry

plus, whatever the price is, there always come times in which prices are low. but in the good times, i live that we've been able to pay off our debt and update our production facility that improve the plantation. today we have company arrows who's plantations, can rival the big ones. what get well, get around the profits read from coffee growing allowed reuben dario to go to university that made him suspect in the eyes of the government, which allied itself with the pic. landowners during the civil war, when, but when the military realize that the guerrilla were trying to contact us, they started following us, settling up in 1980 soldiers that louis the buildings of the university here, and co bon. i mean, i don't know if those are kinda back then some 40 years ago, reuben dairy pack a had to flee his hometown of co van. his name was on the military's flatland,

he found shelter and work with teddy coca cola in guatemala city. he's been a member of the farm as copper since the very 1st, whether this is where the strings, if the world market for coffee are pulled coffee was one of the 1st truly global commodities. and the stock exchange, guatemala, small farmers are connected to the whole wide world. over a quarter, he trained as a banker put the co up coffee on the commodities market, letting them avoid daughtry middleman. the small scale coffee farmers formed deaf education in 1979 in the middle of a civil war which pits the army against the maya population. the maya received support from 3rd world organizations around the world. if the only way that the

bounder was so good, practically turned into a charity of other women. as he said, it was a place where we can ask for support. and then we can believe that concept had no future born in that or what would we do when the day came when we stopped receiving any don't worry about it. i feel yeah. normally better get to work ourselves with my hope for him. we're all good. now was an outcast himself, when he started working for physical kassawa. before that, he'd built up us with trading companies, coffee business in guatemala, but to be able to increase exports. he'd have had to pay hefty bribes and so forth between some i wasn't prepared to do that. so i cool switzerland right away. stick to what i should do. about new psycho from molly cuz my boss at the

time said i didn't know how things worked in such countries. the sake of paying bribes was common practice and it had to be done out of all the small criminal intent. holt: and i resisted that, and it was clear they thought i was founding my nephew and had no future the company moved. so up to this nicole to a comp calling to configure my quote and then came the federico kassawa as an advisor. later he became the organization's director saw last. when you the very 1st thing i tried to make clear to them was trying to solve your problem. bill bought me, don't wait for someone to arrive with a gold, say, ask a life. you're gone, flap potential. if that doesn't happen, meant the problem all go, we have to tackle the problems now, sell them at that and see if we can get some support power for 2nd. so he's on my don't say 8 anymore. it's been struck from my vocabulary in how

a creates dependency and that's something no one should have made you should be able to develop freely in the club. at least that's what i learned in switzerland who reads glee upon what your heart and the on this, the coca cola, the sales manager for 3 decades. he's worked with cortner as he demanded, efficiency and productivity from the co op members. with when i'm in italy, that's mentality together begins with one of those and that i'm a small farmer from what a model. kristi me into the, into the result was 500 percent growth, but at the end, because all the cooperative in the federation will be in banded together behind or wish coordinates. ideas law seek ok. so your good, i think the most important thing or fish brought to physical was the idea that small farmers needed to take themselves seriously. and this is just the king us

before that. and they, and their organizations were programs to pedal misery telling the buyer in the, in the me, syria, or killer him. this is patsy. on the years, we showed them something else my case or listen so you know, they could be proud of their own work, of what they produce, adam for the high quality coffee lack will they look at, but losing all of their 2nd me a world away from here has become a luxury good and the lights on accessory. it gives people invest a few moments of pleasure. for the maya people, coffee is intertwined with their recent history. one they've often the press only now that they've achieved economic independence. many able to speak to poverty and horror they've experienced. ah,

i'm cisco cub mirrors is a small farmer, lives together with his children and grandchildren. here. terrifying on this when i went to school for 3 years. no, no, my parents didn't have the money to allow me to pursue my study. if i see the dog i attended school from age 8 to 11. then i just started working without any training . so i worked on a coffee on the la see bill norm, which was to give you the color and loving in this remote region of mountainous northern guatemala. another small scale farmer has been too heavy. oh, hannah is visiting his father. now 100 years old, one used to work as a forced laborer or no coffee plantation or hate to coffee. the family converses in the maya language. she's living here while i was living here is still

worth it. i was born here in this modest area. i'm in the village. i was. yeah, i agree with grand okay. and he taught us how to work in the us here. there was never enough to live for him. i was so people had to go elsewhere to earn money. i guess i'll wait. i thought i got, i was 7 the 1st time my brother, a nice company now father to the higher the up and they don't really me or my know, but i'll be in la costa. i was played with 3 tortillas, i thrown in, but only when i filled my basket with at least 12 kilos of coffee. i got a basket wasn't food, they were no tears, nor thing. well, they did. the rest of my father would help me with a couple of handful of coffee. so that way i got my 3 to 3 and i don't finish yano city. you lift the bar a town in the department of keep che, she's raised 6 children,

largely on her own. her husband died in the aftermath of the guatemalan civil war. the last, the feliciano coffee harvest is laid out to try one the tracy. i grew up in the family, you know, i didn't have any shoes and walk through the streets, barefoot with my disability. when i turned 7, my father didn't want me to those. you know, in that, in this with me, my mother didn't want that either because we had neither money nor to him to live from my but my father finally relented and i enrolled myself and competent deal. you'll see some, if we, we are in this way, then there were no female teachers from the issue. and so, and so i took a course to be able to work with children. if a lot of us the hand that gets it in

the paper he worked and the coffee plantations on the coast were treated badly and poorly paid richer. and i heard that there was somebody. so in those, if you could tell us, yes, this double oregon erect. let's protest the best wages women. at 1st it was just one or 2 in 3 or 4 got organized, then they all went off the strike. i waited all the time being and both the military and the gorillas, portland wanted to know who was against the up for yada. ok, but i wasn't for the military or the guerrilla. you know, i just wanted to work on nickel and you'll see the

lawyer. so i will, you will pass it on way to those to get a yes you both claimed. yeah, i think i have to really add my thinker you for the most because and it's these folks from the mountain is on the, from the neighbor from char, who lost job, who are getting me into such trouble. so we going to send them hacking time. so i can my letter like that. i hope it will after this with is the late to do my cell. that's how the kidnapped hands began. the matter with the rough must see was the the

vin, we the message, so bow then in shallow che, and seal check me. and we were afraid, and before we knew, we thought we have to flee to the mountain. why? why throw away our line back. was her love me, that was the the reason we live in the military came at 5 in the morning and called everyone together. walker love, i know at 6 o'clock we had to be on the village square, said me, or if it was the 23rd of march is 23 miles. so they will not have all the men were gathered together in the catholic church. they came out in tears,

and an informer said, he's one, he's not here or both of them are a little bit more. and then they were led to the school and killed my father. my father. i. e, my, they were shot dead just like that for my fuse to being carry arrows i course and look at those 85 men who were killed weren't gorilla siegel and i had trouble with my husband lives in childhood, and april 1982. he went to school where he taught children in the community, if only that, if they want to see, feel the land. and then of course, very strong children, jewelry and rubber boot for somebody that was supposedly had children 14, but it made no difference for the for the young or the teachers were made to watch and see if they refused. they were full to hang the children over. they will

get our last phone at the end of this year. my husband lost his mind. you, i'm in. you didn't recognize his children anymore. he didn't know me anymore. general medical and also he died in 1992 is this work is heavier and when the victims were buried, the military sent the women away. yeah. they said go to santa delfiner taylor because soon your homes will be on fire. she knows i was also holy that i came out of like us and so they burned down the village or so they lost the more than $300.00 houses. just 2 weren't for to the ground, both gothic and that way. well, you know, i was 20 years old, but not there were 30 of us boys and they forced us to work for the military show

military but i never killed anyone. i'm sorry, i'm not the kind of person who kill anybody federal law. i'm a decent man, people for this or this a last but those involved are mentioned here. i think up in the security forces. i think a lot pair live for the entire on the 23rd of march in 1982 in guatemala military joined the security for i think i locked their law parallel to massacre the village that can i load their names are here to say. then normally, i mean, in the civil war lasted until 990 thinks 24 years in total, 200000 people were killed. most of them maya the fight against small gorilla groups with used as a pretense to conduct a war of a nation against the indigenous population. in my husband's death,

i was left on my own a 6 kids though i cared for them and they went to school. but not university. when i had no more strength for the last ah, in guatemala 70 percent of the land is owned by just 3 percent of the population. they have very modest holdings, 23000 small farmers have fought hard to achieve economic independence and respect. that shows coffee's importance of north. it ensures our families survive over the reason that familiar port, luna. okay. it's the only problem with and actually live from the day.

small scale farmers organisation fed coca cola is now guatemala. the largest domestic coffee producers from insular won't produce a special emphasis on educating women. this is something that is not self evident in the traditional patriarchal society. rose mendez from the key chain people his own fair. they call cocoa as board of directors. that if you face when you're a woman, so you're places in the kitchen, so it's more credit you and you won't inherit anything either your husband will take care of your pork to muddy the phoenix in rosa mendez trained to be an executive at fed, coca cola as a co op member, she's entitled to financial assistance to get

a book and also learn. we can get from critical kala, it's very helpful for us women to foreign photograph. because at present it's impossible to get one bank fully than those one course is impulsively up to now. and in her vintage rose r mendez encourages other women to amongst the pate themselves. missing elements. i must be important to find the most important message women in all day, even if we've never studied, even if we don't have any diploma. scott bonus, thought we can learn everything, see, for the most, it's almost nothing is impossible. not as simple. simply the sierra delos coach ma, tanice, mountain range lies in north western, guatemala. global warming has reduced the danger of frost at these high elevation benefits, the co op members from total santa rita. their fathers who were forced to go and

work on the coast, brought back coffee with them when they returned to the mountain. but now people here are worried in recent years, the price for a bag of coffee has fallen from around $200.00 us $1.00 to $100.00. yet the expenses are just as high as if not enough of your see a jump, the price is too low. in order that part of it, it will say, yeah, i'm sure hard. then you have to explain to the court proposal. remember that they are reliant on the world market that this happens. that gets you. the current prices are dependent on the international price of coffee. you got fi, let me know what he also had some good mean a gap. unease buyer is prepared to pay $25.00 more for 40 milligram, sack of coffee dipping on hearing that those who still have some coffee in

storage decide to sell it quickly. coffee determines the rhythm of life for many guatemalan, the fruits of their labors. help people around the world wake up each morning. get producing coffee is full of headaches. that can roberts grow as the sleep. mm. the coffee cherries, the being harvested and told her son to return near the mexican border. i don't often is diona vil fills her basket in aah for her husband domingo and son by the legal load. the things that make up domingo has been growing coffee since he was a child. that's the

okay, is that i will have a new our father's worked on the coast in the, on the be i think us because there was nothing here and just corn, potatoes and beans but but then they began planting coffee themselves in brush coffee here. each man, family processes their own coffee, the using a machine uncle, you learn your freeze the beans from the flesh of the coffee, cherry. then there washed the fine coffee, cherries harvested. use just one sack of parchments. coffee with a beans distilling, clever simmer ha. during the day, the coffee is raked only to ensure even drying in case of rain. it must be brought in quickly. it takes

a few days to the coffee to achieve the desired moisture content of exactly 11.5 percent. but donor feliciano doesn't need a measuring device to tell when it's reading for the. so over the next, i know in my heart when it reaches that point to a meter at the white coffee, it's dried out and has no taste any learning. not in awe. domingo once to offer his son, the better life was easier than his growing coffee is too much hard work looking after the bushes, the harvest, calling the sax. so i decided that my son shouldn't follow my steps when were you that it'd be better if he went to see what it's to do. ma'am, is one of the $21.00. my own languages spoken in guatemala, where the money is comprised one of the largest ethnic groups,

me. ah, when you, when, when, when i came to the city, there was a group of mestizos where he thought they were better than for my son. so you start to doubt yourself, melinda, be not been that maybe they are better than us because they speak spanish. can a thought to look out in the spaniel? people do it in my head. i thought a maya is as intelligent as m. s t, so maybe even more or mccorkle marina does this, that was always in my mind. so i was able to fulfill my dream, gimme gimme 20th for an a foot and you can sandwich by video works for fed coca cola as an advisor, but to make his dreams come true. he had to get his way at home 1st us again. well, maybe i got my high school diploma and that's all my parents wanted. so when we felt that i wanted to go on to study at the university,

i told them that if you can help me go to the usa. i me, your me away. but if i hadn't been able to go to university in on, i'd be in the us today. ah, for to not to popular at the neo is uncle is a history teacher. in the stablished a small museum where he preserved the history and culture of his people. it was misled on the myers explanations for the creation of the world. ok and where the v or the element of nature and water in air, the sun and the solar lunar i so rarely feel about the christian church. demonized are my religion for them. it was the work of devils and said things that way until close to the end of the 20th

century. is that on january 29th, 1996 at mail a p. s. treaty with scientists. and only since then have we had freedom of religion who at a mother's civil war triggered the mass. exodus history came back to hold the u. s . which and, you know, check those out on the immigration, began in 1981 a metal, 2000 years. and when the 1st people went to the united states and sent money home e last with a neighbor, how those folks were better off the will say, what are the 3 men then? many of the 1st time a friends began to smuggle their countrymen study. a lot of there are lots of people smugglers here i went and many have become 1000000 a we just case. so we are not a people are no longer leaving the island for love, but rather due to the lack of john, i said, while the winners that,

that i was the immigration of the us continually. and let me get a feel for a 1000 there. donna luciano is galati, has 6 children to feed her husbands only do young her son santos explains why his brother left the family and cries of coffee has fallen readily and so my brother both oldest said that it's no longer enough to feed all of it. when i press a young man, so he decided to go to the states and your friends and cousins money together until he had enough to pay the people smuggler's book, you don't forget, that's how it was. they'll call you up there. and those are the where. yeah, but then on route immigration officers caught him or been 3 months in jail who was released on bail. and so that's the situation now. medicine like out of the value

of young god only knows what will happen to him. i would, it doesn't matter. i meant that he was going to so usa supported guatemala government in preventing land reform and depressing it. indigenous peoples. now with a maya godsa seeking vengeance, and it's doubtful that even building a board wall will help at a coca cola. exports the half a 1000000 back. the coffee around the world teach farmer receives $1.00 to $1.00 and a half us 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. phil all has gone now, isn't complaining, is done for me. i think it would help us much more if the trans national companies

purchasing the product, pay taxes, where the goods are produced and sold with the sport or car. it's just a new kind of colonialism. you're the one that really needs dismantling your colonial these most. and he's simply not right to click on a think the c sharp 3. 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 beings in the coffee, the roma barrow him mit upon, and the scent of a new freedom technical term. you have to fight for your dream, the input into the you must be enterprising, and then you have to constantly bessie yourself, may hoarding. you need to have this vision of the flight and recognize opportunities in the car because opportunity value exists. can book a kick in the exist and put the ass. oh

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