AJ is the moniker for a woman who is spending a year in the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, S. America, as an International Human Rights Accompanier. She uses her blog, “Limping Towards Justice,” to talk about her daily life in a small community. One recent entry entitled, “Cows, Coffee, Chocolate and Corruption,” details her experience with coffee and cocao beans. Delightful writing and an engaging perspective. She ends her entry with the following:
I think it is worth noting that the famous Juan Valdez has retired and been replaced this past year. While reading “Semana,” Colombia’s version of Newsweek/Time I came across a blurb about the switch over. The Coffee Growers Federation elected a 40-year-old Antioquian campesino named Carlos Castañeda out of an applicant pool of 406 aspiring icons. He replaces Carlos Sánchez, the Juan Valdez we have known and loved over the last four decades, and will soon set off on a world tour, I’m unsure if the donkey has also been replaced. I had no idea that there was an actual man out there traveling the world and promoting Colombian coffee, I thought it was just a picture on a coffee can.
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