MexicanCoffee

12 NOVEMBER 2004 -- MEXICO CITY, MEX: A latte in a Mexico City coffee house. The mountains of southern Mexico make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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Contained in galleries: Mexico (all), Latin America and the Caribbean, The Grinds of Life: Mexico's Struggling Coffee Industry

12 NOVEMBER 2004 -- MEXICO CITY, MEX: A latte in a Mexico City coffee house. The mountains of southern Mexico make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ