Episode 5: Coffee, Capitalism, and The Cost of Global Power
Coffee & Coffins
From CIA-backed coups in Guatemala to oligarchs in El Salvador and the silent hands behind African conflict zones, the episode reveals how U.S. interests and global brands profited off instability, death, and the cheap labor of the people growing the world’s favorite bean.
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Episode 4: From Revolution to Assassination
Coffee & Coffins
From Paris to Vienna, revolutionaries gathered over coffee to draft manifestos, organize uprisings, and plan assassinations. As empires rose on coffee, this episode explores how they also unraveled—one café at a time.
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Episode 3: The Plantation Poison
Coffee & Coffins
Brazil became the king of coffee—but at a devastating cost. In this episode, we uncover how slavery fueled the rise of the global coffee industry, and how the legacy of forced labor still lingers in the fields and fortunes built on black gold.
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Episode 1: The Blood Price of Arabica
Coffee & Coffins
Hundreds of years ago coffee didn’t spread peacefully. It was smuggled, stolen, fought over. Ottoman sultans tried to control it. European colonists sought to dominate it. And behind every shipment of beans... there were chains.
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Episode 2: The Coffee Seed Heist That Changed History
Coffee & Coffins
They called it “the seed that launched an empire.” But it wasn’t traded—it was stolen. One French spy, a single coffee plant, and a smuggling plot that would reshape global power.
info_outlineHundreds of years ago coffee didn’t spread peacefully. It was smuggled, stolen, fought over.
Ottoman sultans tried to control it. European colonists sought to dominate it.
And behind every shipment of beans... there were chains.