CLOUDS IN THE SKIES!




                               "GUATEMALAN COFFEE COOPERATIVE CONTINUES!!


             THE RAINS HAVE BEGUN!  COFFEE SEASON BEGINNING.  IT DOES NOT
             LOOK PROMISING THAT IT WILL BE A GOOD COFFEE HARVEST.  PRICES
             ON THE LOCAL AND WORLD MARKET DO NOT LOOK PROMISING.
              PEOPLE DO CONTINUE TO MIGRATE NORTH!  OUR MISSION AREA IS IN
              COFFEE COUNTRY.  WHEN OUR MISSION FIRST BEGAN IN THE SIXTIES,
              A COFFEE COOPERATIVE WAS STARTED BY ONE OF THE PRIESTS!  THAT
              COOPERATIVE THRIVED, "THANKS" TO THE PEOPLES ENTHUSIASM, OTHER
              COFFEE EXPERTS, AND COFFEE ASSOCIATION.  THE NAME OF THE
              COOPERATIVE IS NAHUALA R.L.  THE COOPERAATIVE WAS FOUNDED BY,
              FR. JAMES TACKES, OF THE DIOCESE OF HELENA AND OTHER  LEADERS OF                    THE COMMUNITIES  AND CATHOLIC CHURCH, IN 1964.
           
              A GROUP OF WOMEN "SOCIOS", CONTINUE VERY ACTIVE. THEIR GROUP
              IS REFERRED TO AS "FEMININE  SOCIOS", AND ARE VERY ACTIVE STILL.
              THEIR COFFEE CONTINUES TO BE MARKETED AS "CAFE FEMININA" IN
              THE "UNITED STATES"!  THIS YEAR THERE ARE 128 WOMEN SOCIOS AND
              97 MEN.  THE SOCIOS COME FROM 14 COMMUNITIES NEAR COMMUNIDAD
              PASAC.  WE HOPE CAFÉ FEMININA OF PASAC CAN BE MARKETED IN OUR
              DIOCESE OF HELENA, MONTANA.

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