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Photo Gallery A Coffee Renaissance

For decades, coffee was about as exciting as washing powder and detergent. But today it has become a lifestyle statement. The bean boom, though, hides the brutal economic realities behind coffee production.
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Coffee has become a luxury product and fashion accessory. That, at least, is how it is presented. Behind it, though, is a brutal economic reality that ensures most of the profits end up in the West.

Foto: Johannes Arlt/LAIF
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The new Starbucks roaster is an attempt to tell a new story, one for our post-globalized age. Coffee roasted on site before your eyes by people you know. A place to slow down amid the hectic pace of life. An artisanal product, not an industrial one.

Foto: Joshua Trujillo
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