Crime ‘Down’ Starbucks and Nespresso Coffee: Extortion and Violence Hit Producers · Global Voices

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Organized crime calls for espresso coffee?The farms that produce some of Colombia's highest quality coffees are the target of armed criminals and extortioners as security deteriorates in large areas of the Andes.Germán Bahamón, president of the coffee growers' federation, ensures that the problems are particularly serious in the provinces of Nariño and Cauca, in southwestern Colombia.The threat to coffee producers in Colombia represents a proble…