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Economy & Business - July-August 2012 (ISSN 1741-7430)
Troubled coffee growers want cash injection from mining
Thousands of Colombian coffee growers poured onto the streets of Manizales, the capital of Caldas, on 13 August to ask the government of President Juan Manuel Santos to purchase their crops at much higher prices than normal in order to alleviate the economic hardship triggered by one of the worst harvests in recent times. The fact that some 15,000 people mobilised from numerous departments, including Antioquia, Valle del Cauca, Santander, Cundinamarca, Nariño, Huila, Tolima and Cesar serves is an indication of the severity of the problem.
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