shortages have become normal for coffee harvester iowa as for most yemenis. the war has affected everything. there's hardly any gas no electricity nothing even medicine. you can't get anything for the children. the 2 brothers bring a half sack of freshly harvested coffee cherries to a broker. checks the quality which will determine the price of yemeni coffee is considered among the best in the world but the gates to the world are largely hell shot by the saudi military coalition. the blockade prevents exports we want the airport to be open again on a resolution to the war. export the coffee by land but sometimes large amounts of it rock because they won't open the harbor or the airport. up. the farmers are grateful if the broker can sell the coffee only then can they are in money. you know. that god i was able to sell something today i got about $40.00 for my staple food for my family it will be enough for a week or 2. staple foods means flour rice noodles and oil the few dairy products available are imported and extremely expensive. few people can afford mea

iowa that has been uncovered. folks now that we know of, but i would not be surprised. amy: you write about this in "harvestf empire." talk about the relations with u.s. soldiers moving into the dominican republic and vetting the dominican republic in 1965, and then how that shapes of modern-day dominican republic. >> there were means propping up on sunday. it was basically him laughing and saying, well, don't even know how to properly steal an election. he was the man that the united states helped put in power once there was a u.s.-backed who in 1965. he was president -- i like to talk about this a lot because i feel the dominican republic doesn't get -- - i feel people normally look at the dictatorship that lasted 30 years. a very tough stronghold regime were a lot of people were killed and disappeared. happened. i'm ok, it we have democracy. that's it. that wasn't the case. he was president starting from the late 1960's up until the early 1990's. we are talking about two to three generations of generations . his was also a right-wing sort of strong regime and a repressive regime. people are already seein