For generations our plantation was owned and managed by one individual land owner. In the 1990s, due to the global fall of coffee prices and poor management, we were not paid wages for a total of 18 months and barely survived. Consequently, we united and initiated a long legal process against the owner for those unpaid wages. During this legal process the owner declared bankruptcy and it appeared that we would lose everything. We were forced to form an independent workers union in a desperate effort to retain the land our parents and grandparents had worked. With a loan from Fondo de Tierras, we purchased legal title to the plantation on December 18, 2004.

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