He found Shelter And Work with petty Coca Cola in guatemala city. Hes been a member of the farm is comparative since the very start whether this is where the strings of the World Markets, the 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. Oh hi. Courtney, who trained as a banker put the co up coffee on the commodities market, letting them avoid g middleman. The small Scale Coffee farmers formed that federation in 979. 00 in the middle of a civil war which painted the army against the maya population. The mayas received support from 3rd world organizations around the world. But a bounder was so good, practically turned into a charity of other women. As he said, it was a place where we can ask for more than we can believe that content had no future born in it. Or what would we do when the day came . When we stopped receiving any d a, but i feel you know, you better get to work ourselves. My hope about him was over a good now was an outcast himself when he started working for 50 Coca Cola. Before that, hed built up us with trading companies, Coffee Business in guatemala. But to be able to increase export, hed have had to pay half the bribes. Holton saunders over between that and i wasnt prepared to do that. So i cool switzerland right away, stick to what i should do. You go from monica, say, my boss at the time said i didnt know how things work in such countries. The sake of the paying bribes was common practice and it had to be done out of those small clinic. Holt and i resisted that, and it was clear they thought i was founding my own manual and had no future at the company fish mood. So wound up not to this nicole to a comp calling to consider your mind. Well, hey, courtney then came the fed Coca Cola as an adviser later he became the organization director. Hello. When you, the very 1st being i tried to make clear to them was trying to solve your problem bills and bought that need. Dont wait for someone to arrive with a gold sack, a life has gone flat, but that just doesnt happen. Meant the plane all go, we have to tackle the problems now. So its and see if we can get some support power cycle. So these are my dont say aid anymore. Its been struck from my vocabulary in how i create dependency. And Thats Something no one should have made you should be able to develop freely and at least thats what i learned in fulfilling the sweetly above what she did and the own is the Coca Cola, the Sales Manager for 3 decades. Hes worked with cortner as he demanded, Efficiency And Productivity from the co op members. With when im in italy, thats mentality together thinking of which one he knows and that im a small farmer from what a model graphy me into the into the result and was 500 percent growth. But at the end, because all the co operative in the federation will be in banded together behind or wish coordinates, Ideas Law seek ok in your good, i think the most important thing or which brought to physical aqua 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 peddle misery, telling the buyer in the, in the me, syria, or killer him this in the past. The only 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 at am for to use my Quality Coffee Law school. They look at losing all of the 2nd me. The world away from here has become a luxury good and the lifestyle accessory. It gives people invest a few moments of pleasure. For the maya people, coffee is intertwined with their recent history. One theyve often depress only now that theyve achieved economic independence. Many able to speak of Poverty And Horror theyve experienced ah, Cisco Cub mirrors is a small farmer, lives together with his children and grandchildren. Here over the Per Find on the grill. I went to school for 3 years. No, no. My parents didnt have the money to allow me to pursue my study. So 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 law, so see if it will know me, which way you dont have enough ink. And in this remote region of mountainous northern guatemala, another small Scale Farmer don hath intellect seveel. Hannah is visiting his father. Now 100 years old, one used to work as a forced labor on a coffee plantation. Luck well have to copy the family converses in the maya language. Shes living here while i was living here still when i was born here in this modest area in the village i was yeah, i grew with one. Okay. And he taught us how to work in europe here. There was never enough to live. So people had to go elsewhere to earn money. I guess ill wait. I thought i got i was 7 the 1st time my brother and i a company now father to the higher they put in. They dont really me or my know for, ill be in la costa. I was paid with 3 tortillas, thrown in, but only when i filled my basket with at least 12 kilos of coffee. I got a basket was there were no tears or thing or the little rest of my father would help me with a couple of handfuls of coffee. So that way i got my 3 to 3, and im glad Donna Feliciano lived in napa, a town in the department of key j. Shes raised thick children, largely on her own. Her husband died in the aftermath of the guatemalan civil war. The last definition of Coffee Harvest is laid out to dry. When the c, i grew up in a whole family. You know i didnt have any shoes and walked through the streets barefoot with my disability. When i turned 7, my father didnt want me to go to school. You know, in that, in this way, my mother didnt want that either because we had not the Money North of him live from my but my father finally relented and i enrolled myself and being competent deal. Youll follow them if we leave it in this way. Then there were no female teachers from the shield. And so i took a course to be able to work with children. If a lot of a hospital nino, the hands of the in the paper he worked and the coffee plantations on the coast were treated badly. And poorly paid and i heard that there was a nice i me so in those, if you could tell us, yes, its double oregon. Eric, lets protest, better 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 guerrillas. Portland wanted to know who was against for yada. Okay, but i wasnt for the military or the gorilla journal. I just want it to work Nickel And Youll see the the way go. So i will you will pass it on well those again, the yet you both claimed yapping. I have guerrillas at my thinker. You for tampa most because then its these folks from the mountain, from the neighbor from char who lost job, who are getting me into such trouble selling. So we going to send them packing each time i care, my mother like that. I hope that this is the only way to do that. Well, thats how the kidnapped hands began to move. A little sick with the rough massey was the the the time then we heard the message, so bow, then in shallow che, and seal check me. And we were afraid, and before you we thought actually we have to flee to the mountain. Why . Why throw away allied us back. Her love you the the the simple the military came at 5 in the morning and called everyone together. What will love, i know, at 6 oclock we had to be on the Village Square and said that was the 23rd of march in 23 miles so they will not lose all the men were gathered together in the catholic church. They came out in tears, and an informer said, hes one who, hes not here. Both of them are a lot more. And then they were led to the school and killed my father. My father. I. E, they were shot dead just like that for my fuse to being get arrows i course and look at those 85 men who were killed werent gorilla. You think one way i dont get in trouble. My husband lives in childhood. April 1982. He went toward the children in the community, if only that, if they land and then very strong children who will probably do before somebody that was supposedly getting children 1418. It made no difference for the rest of the teachers were made to watch and see if they refused. They were forced to hang the children over. They will get our last us the see end of this year. My husband lost his mind. You. I mean, you didnt recognize his children anymore. All right. He didnt 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. Oh yeah. Ok. This one they said go to santa delfiner taylor, because soon your homes will be on fire. She also also supported the feel i came out of like us. And so they burned down the village. Was there last the more than 300 houses. Salvia just 2 werent for to the ground, both gothic and all that way. Well, you know, i was 20 years old though not. There were 30 of us boys and they forced us to work for the military Show Military but i never killed anyone. Im sorry, im not the kind of person who kill anybody federal law. Im a decent man. These people for this or this a last but those involved are mentioned here to pick up in the security for the think. I love her live for the day on the 23rd of march, 1982 in the water, mom and military. I joined the security for i think i locked airline paddling to massacre the village that can i you long. Their names are here to say then normally, i mean in the civil war lasted until 990 think 24 years and total 200000 people were killed. Most of them maya the fight against small gorilla groups with used as a pretense to conduct a war if annihilation against the indigenous population. Similarly, after my husbands death, i was left on my own a 6 kids. I cared for that when they went to, but not university. I had no more strength. In guatemala, 70 percent of the land is owned by just 3 percent of the population. On that very modest holdings, 23000 small farmers have fought hard to achieve economic independence and the back shows coffee is important. North of it ensures our families survive over the reason that familiar, luna. Okay. Its the only problem with an actually live from the day. Small Scale Farmers organisation fed Coca Cola is now guatemala. The largest domestic Coffee Producer from insular cooperative is a special emphasis on educating women. This is something that is not self evident, and they, traditionally patriarchal society, rose mendez from the key chain people, his own, fed, a coca where the board of directors that if you face when youre a woman, so youre places in the kitchen. So its more credit and you wont inherit anything either, because your husband will take care of your pork to muddy the phoenix. In Rosa Mendez trained to be an executive at fatty Coca Cola. As a co op member, shes entitled to financial assistance to increase the loan. We can get from critical kala, its very helpful for us women to part on the left because at present its impossible to get one Bank Valley than those Bank Course is impulsively of finance. And in her vintage rose mendez encourages other women to emancipate themselves. Elements are much important to find the most important message, women in all day, even if weve never studied. Even if we dont have any diploma scatter toner, we can learn everything the for the most. Its almost capacity, nothing is impossible. Not a simple civil. The sierra delos Coach Martin this 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 Port back coffee with them when they returned to the mountains. But now people have worried to wait in recent years, the price for a bag of coffee fallen from around 200. 00 us 1. 00 to 100. 00. Yet the expenses are just as high as if its not enough. If youre seeing the price to lower your Auto Part of the chart, then you have to explain to the court proposal. Remember that they are reliant on the World Market that this happens that the current prices are dependent on the international price of coffee. And ill just be very low, but he also has some good a Gap Aneice 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 guatemalans, 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. Mm. The coffee cherries, the being harvested and told santa every time near the mexican border, i dont often see on the field fills her baskets. Ah, her husband domingo and son by the legal Lo Domingo has been growing coffee since he was a child. That the okay is that i will have a new our fathers worked on the coast in the, on the be i think us because there was nothing here and just corn, potatoes and beans. I dont know. But but, but then they began planting coffee themselves because i dont, ive been Brush Cafe here. Each Man Family processes their own coffee the using a machine. Uncle yolando, freeze the beans from the flesh of the coffee, cherry. Then they washed the 5 coffee cherries harvested yields. Just one sack of Parchment Coffee with a beans distilling cloves in my house. During the day, the coffee is raked only to ensure even drawing. 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 Donna Luciana doesnt need a Measuring Device to tell when its ready for the. So over the next, i know in my heart, but its the reach that point to a meter at the white coffee gets dried out and has no taste anymore. No, not in the use. Domingo wants to offer his son a better life. One thats easier than his if you are growing coffee is too much hard work. Looking after the bushes, the harvest, calling the sax. So i decided that my son shouldnt follow in my footsteps when were you that itd be better if he went to see what to do. Maam, is one of the 21 my own languages, spoken in guatemala, where the mans comprised one of the largest ethnic groups. Ah, when you, when i when i came to the city, there was a group of miss diesel where we thought they were better than in the thesis, the center. So you start to doubt yourself, momentum based on the parents that maybe they are better than us because they speak spanish. What is can a thought to look out in the spaniard . He put it in my head. I thought a maya is as intelligent as a miss diesel, maybe even more or mccorkle marina, that that was always in my mind. And so i was able to fulfill my dream simply, if they took me kim sonias for an account for it. And yet the cassandra, but as india worked for fed Coca Cola as an advisor, but to make his dreams come true, he had to get his way at home 1st. In the well, maybe i got my high School Diploma and thats all my parents wanted. So when we thought i wanted to go on the study at the university, i told them that if you cant help me, ill go to the usa, me your me away. But if i hadnt been able to go to university, you know, might be in the us today. Ah, for to nato popular as the neo with uncle is a History Teacher . Ah, hes established a small museum where he preserves the History And Culture of his people. Left my sweater on the myers one explanations for the creation of the world. Ok. And were the v or the element of Nature And Water and air. The sun and the solar lunar i so really feel but the christian church demonized are my religion for them. It was the work of devils and said, thats it. And things that way until close to the end of the 20th century is on january 29th. 1996 at mail a p. Treaty with side 8th. And only since then have we had freedom of religion, but at least i live in that mothers civil war triggered mass. Exodus history came back to hold the us we can, you know, check this out on the immigration, began in 1981, a level 2000. And when the 1st people went to the United States and, and money home e, last with a neighbor, how those folks were better off the will gotta make what are we in the holding of premier. Then many of the 1st time friends began to smuggle their countrymen at the study. A lot of there are lots of people smugglers here i went and many have become 1000000 the i 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, while the Wind Visit that the immigration of the us continually and let me that a few 1000 there. Donna luciano is cannot. He has 6 children feeds her Husbands Id and her son. Santos explains why his brother left the family but not the critical price of coffee has fallen yet readily. And so my brother both oldest said that it is no longer enough to feed all of it. When i press the right, michael on mine, so he decided to go to the states and your friends and cousins and money together until he had enough to pay the people smugglers pocket. Dont forget, thats how it was. Know theyll call you up there. And those are the where, yeah, but then on route that immigration officers caught him or at least 3 months in jail who was released on bail. And so thats the situation now, medicine like out of the value of young god only knows what will happen to him. I would, it doesnt matter. I meant that he was going in the usa supported guatemala government in preventing Land Reform and depressing its indigenous peoples. Now the mayan godsa seeking vengeance, and its doubtful that even building a portable will help at a Coca Cola. Bought half a 1000000 bags of coffee around the world. Each farmer receives 1. 00 to 1. 00 and a half us dollars per pound. Thats 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, isnt complaining, is done for me. I think it would help us much more if the trends national companies, purchasing the product, pay taxes, where the goods are produced and sold. And he spoke often. Its just a new kind of colonialism. Youre the one that really needs dismantling your colonial these most and simply not right to clear up with us in the face of me. Grief, one way to maximize profits is to roast the coffee themselves. The co op members are already supplying the local market with their own beans in the coffee roma. There are him that letter and the sent have a new freedom clinical chat. You have to fight for your dream, the imprint you must be enterprising, and then you have to constantly bessie yourself and the hoarding. You need to have this vision of the flight and recognize opportunities in the chat of the because Opportunity Value exists. Now you can look at 2nd the exist in a port. Yes. Ah. Ah, yes. 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