Guatemalan coffee producers dream of return to US amid price fall
26 July 2019 |
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Small Guatemalan coffee producers, who lived for years in the United States and were able to buy land in Guatemala to plant coffee upon their return, are thinking of trying to risk going back to the US illegally due to the fall of the international price of coffee.
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