Colombia: Colombia's Ex-FARC Guerrillas Are Training as Coffee Growers and Baristas in Cauca

Sep 13, 2017 | Sorrel Moseley-Williams, Independent
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“I want Colombia to be different,” says Jhon Benavides, an aspiring barista and, from the age of 14 until last year, a guerrilla in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. He’s just prepared a brew, carefully weighing out freshly ground coffee beans before making some cups of arabica grown here in Popayán, an agricultural town in the department of Cauca.