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The Four
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The Story of Central American Coffee
From southern Mexico you can draw a line moving after which the C contract is named. Four of these coun-
south through Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and tries are also tied together by something of a mystery. For
Costa Rica to Panama. It’s not a straight line, but one that as long as anyone on the commodity side of coffee trading
meanders and loops along the borders between wet/dry can remember, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and
tropical environments and Mesoamerican highlands. This Costa Rica have been referred to as “The Four Horsemen.”
line ties these coffee producing countries together in While everyone can understand the reasons for connect-
terms of harvest calendar and what were once considered ing them, the reason they were given the nickname, “Four
interchangeable coffees, the “Central America Milds,” Horsemen,” seems to be lost to time. It’s an oral tradition
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