Origin Trip – Guatemala – November 2007
Posted on November 8, 2007
I traveled to Guatemala in November to meet with our grower partners and to donate equipment for a cupping lab. I arrived in Guatemala city on the morning of a presidential runoff, and was met by Edgar and Sylvia Lazo, owners of Finca Chipacay, our longest coffee partnership. My trip to Guatemala had been delayed by two months due to unrest associated with the first round of voting in September. Surprisingly the streets of the capital were quiet the day I arrived, and after a short rest back at the house we headed to the polling station where Edgar exercised his right to vote. The election went off without a hitch, and so our focus quickly turned to coffee.
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