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Origin
Story/ Mikhail Sebastian

NEW LEVEL OF

MYANMAR COFFEE

PART 1

“You may not think about politics, but politics that due to economic mismanagement and political oppression turned
think about you”. The quote was stated by Aung San country into the less visited nation with sanctions imposed by the world’s
Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and Nobel Peace Prize leading powers.
winner, portrayed by Michelle Yeoh in 2011 film Today Myanmar is the most vibrant and colorful country with
“The Lady”. more tourists entering this nation in order to learn the mystic past and
Republic of the Union of Myanmar is an inde- modern present of this Buddhist dominated nation. Besides jade, gems,
pendent state in Southeast Asia that went from oil and natural gas, Myanmar recently went on the map of specialty
Imperial rule controlled by the King to occupied coffee scene when the first samples were introduced back in 2016
British colony that was annexed in 1886 to its in- cupping gathering at La Colombe in Philadelphia with collaboration of
dependency that run from 1948 to 1962. From 1962 Winrok International, Atlas Coffee Importers, USAID, and CQI repre-
to 2011 Myanmar was under ruthless military rule sented by Andrew Hetzel.

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