Marcala The day moved in the slow deliberate, yet sometimes desperate, speed of the countryside, filled with quite, almost boredom, one minute, and adventure and mayhem the next. We started down the mountainside to an uncertain appointment in Marcala. We were joining our friends at COMUCAP, the small women’s coffee and aloe vera growing cooperative, here …
Category: ACORN International
Learning Direct Trade in the Coffee Mountains of San Juancito
San Juancito At first I was confused driving out of the serpentine mountains and hillsides on which Tegucigalpa is perched, but then I realized that we were on the same highway we had traveled a year ago to Valle de los Angeles, a small, pretty colonial spot specializing in pupusas and tourists. We took a left, …
Fire in the Mercado, Usury at Los Bancos
Tegucigalpa Within minutes of hitting central Tegucigalpa we were on our way to a series of markets directly across the picturesque but fetid river running alongside the capitol not far from the original palace. ACORN Honduras in Tegucigalpa had been working with stall vendors over the last month who had asked for help after a sudden …