Hi VV,

I appreciated the Dean Cycon item on the global coffee market. The information illuminating the dire circumstances of the small growers is true. I learned this from my sister-in-law, who is a native Columbian, whose people relied on coffee crops for a livelihood. The alternative crop of course is commonly know to us as coca. The leaves were regularly eaten to stave off the pains of hunger. Now they are harvested to earn a little money. A clear case of survival for some Columbians who do not have the luxury of making abstract moral distinctions while the drug lords reap the befit of coffee manipulators. In the end, we in the U.S. are faced with the hideous drug problems arising from varying levels and foci of greed. Dean's article was an eye opener. Keep it up. I may have a cup of
coffee anyway.

George Bluh
Conway

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