Resource: Arizona Daily Star
By Perla Trevizo
Article link from Dennis Smith
Women were representing the household in community meetings.
The men had migrated north, either to work at a factory along the Mexican border or to cross illegally into the United States. Daily buses took people north to Tijuana and Agua Prieta.
A decade later, things have turned around in at least one town in Chiapas.
Men have returned to their home village. People are building concrete homes. There's a phone in each house and access to water.
It can all be attributed to Café Justo, said Daniel Cifuentes, 45, who left his village to work in a maquiladora in Agua Prieta.
Café Justo is a cooperative that tries to address one of the root causes of migration: money. The idea is for coffee growers to have full control of their product all through the process - cultivating, roasting, packaging and exporting.
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Article link from Dennis Smith
Mexico Coffee Co-Op, With Border Operations, Helping Ease Immigration Pressures
In the late 1990s, residents of a coffee-growing town in southern Mexico began noticing something unusual.
Women were representing the household in community meetings.
The men had migrated north, either to work at a factory along the Mexican border or to cross illegally into the United States. Daily buses took people north to Tijuana and Agua Prieta.
A decade later, things have turned around in at least one town in Chiapas.
Men have returned to their home village. People are building concrete homes. There's a phone in each house and access to water.
It can all be attributed to Café Justo, said Daniel Cifuentes, 45, who left his village to work in a maquiladora in Agua Prieta.
Café Justo is a cooperative that tries to address one of the root causes of migration: money. The idea is for coffee growers to have full control of their product all through the process - cultivating, roasting, packaging and exporting.
Read more...
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