Colombia: La Secreta’s Honey, a Sweet Product of a More Peaceful Colombia

Mar 6, 2018 | Latin American Herald Tribune
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In the foothills of northern Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, farmers who were displaced by violence have started remaking their lives with a sweet project: the production of high-quality honey that they hope to sell abroad someday. Honey, along with coffee, is one of the products that people are pinning their hopes on in La Secreta, a small mountain village that, like so many others, suffered from paramilitary violence during the 1990s.