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Café Caribe
Joaquín Viloria De la Hoz (editor), Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Jaime Bonet Morón, Andrés Gómez Parra, Lucas Rodríguez Echeverry, Mario Samper Kutschbach, Marco Martínez Martínez, María Laura Arias Núñez, Gertrud Peters Solórzano, Luis Anaya Merchant, Marie Hardy Seguette, Christian Girault, Libia González López, José Leibovich, Efraín Sánchez Cabra, Aurora Izquierdo Torres, Paulo Lemus Navarro, Jorge Enrique Elías Caro (editor), Etna Mercedes Bayona Velásquez (editor)
2024
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Reading this work allows us to understand, through twelve chapters, the social and economic dynamics of coffee cultivation in the Great Caribbean Basin—a macro-region delimited by our Nobel Prize winner in literature, Gabriel García Márquez. This region encompasses the Gulf of Mexico, Central America, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, northern South America, and northeastern Brazil. The story dates back 300 years, to the arrival of the first coffee grains brought by the French and Dutch, a history that has been little known until now. The book recounts that the islands of Martinique and Dutch Guiana were the initial places where coffee was first planted in America. It also discusses how Haiti, Cuba, and Puerto Rico were the main coffee exporters worldwide for some years. Furthermore, it mentions that several families were brought to Puerto Rico and Jamaica to work in the coffee plantations of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Additionally, it highlights that Jamaica and Panama produce some of the highest-priced coffees in the international market, among other notable facts and events related to coffee consumption and marketing in the analyzed territory.
This book is included in DOAB.
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