00:00welcome back to from the south and now we're heading to the Miranda state in Venezuela where
00:20the coffee mountains are being revived thing to producers technicians and communal women
00:25who are bringing back a century-old tradition on the Miranda coffee route families like Rebeca
00:31and Gilbertos together with organized communities are proving that the aroma of coffee can also be
00:39the driving force behind a socialist and solidarity-based economy our correspondent
00:44Álvaro Fragua visited them and brings us their story in the mountains of Miranda state the coffee
00:52route recovers a history that goes back centuries after decades of neglect local women producers
00:58are once again planting harvesting and processing the internationally renowned Monte Claro coffee bean
01:04thanks to the national government through the government of the Bolivarian state of Miranda
01:10producers in the Miranda Highlands especially in the Miranda route have been encouraged to start
01:18producing again because this area used to be coffee plantations more than 50 or 100 years ago now we
01:27are recovering what was once known as the coffee mountains under a small farm Rebecca and her
01:34husband Gilberto have turned their love of coffee into a way of life she's in charge of the harvest
01:40while he has designed his own machines for roasting cooling and grinding the beans well it's a beautiful
01:47story the truth is that I didn't think it would be so exciting at first it was just something there you
01:53know but every day it gets a little more exciting you fall in love and well you start creating now I'm
01:59making my equipment I do my things not only to entertain myself but also to earn some dividends
02:06the Miranda coffee route generates local prosperity bringing together producers and socialist communes from
02:12self-managed kiosk built by the community they distribute this artisanal coffee among their
02:17neighbors and community centers and this space here the communes come and pick up here this is where
02:24they buy our neighbors our friends from the communes the neighbors the residents of the commune come and pick
02:30up the coffee here and take it back to their community the coffee from Miranda has become a symbol of
02:38identity and cooperation its quality has already crossed borders and is exported to Japan where
02:43its purity and origin are valued if you taste it you will see that it is practically a gourmet coffee
02:51we sell it as a traditional coffee but this coffee is gourmet coffee because of the quality of the coffee we
02:56have back at the plantation Rebecca tells us how the producers in the mountains learned their trade and
03:01trained to become master coffee growers she is satisfied with the product that now competes at the national level
03:07we have become coffee masters but we had to study for several months
03:16right now there are 300 coffee masters in the association to which i belong
03:23there are 132 members according to the legal registry
03:29from the field to the cup this artisanal coffee represents the collective work of a region being reborn
03:34amidst the mountains it is a productive community-based economy that is proudly venezuelan
03:42this is artisanal coffee we grow it harvest it and process it as you have seen it is depulped and
03:47processed here on the farm
03:54it is not processed in companies where chemicals may be used here on our farm it is completely healthy
03:59from the plant to the processing from the plant to the processing and then we can enjoy a delicious
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