Coffee beans are seen in an illustration photo. (Unsplash/Jocelyn Morales)
Mexico It s a three-hour trek from San Cristobal de Las Casas up the paved road to San Joaquin.
Winding up the side of the mountain, between 1,500 and 2,500 meters high, one looks out over long tree-lined valleys where corn, beans and coffee grow.
In San Joaquin, which is a part of the municipality of Pantelho, people speak the indigenous language Tzeltal. Only those few who have been to school can speak Spanish.
Manuel Guzman Perez lives here with his wife and three children.
The 30-year-old farmer cultivates coffee on the six hectares that were allocated by the community to his parents and their seven children.