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Bitter coffee harvest for migrants

Friday, June 28, 2019


International coffee prices in May hit their lowest levels in 13 years, due largely to surging output in Brazil and Vietnam.

Meanwhile, dozens of arabica coffee growers across Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua have swelled the ranks of migrants trying to enter the United States and stoked the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump, Reuters reports.