A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 11
A Coffee Crusade
Minister Gallegos separately confronts Bridget and Scopes as Federal troops move across the peninsula. The future of the Encarnacion farmers hangs in the balance.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 10
A Coffee Crusade
Bridget discusses her activities with the CEA executive team, but their conversation is interrupted. From Eva she learns about Salavandra’s Federal troops overrunning the coffee operation. Teresa blames Bridget for the peninsula’s discovery and breaks Eva’s friendship with Bridget.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 9
A Coffee Crusade
Two Federals detain Luis and interrogate him about Bridget’s location. Minster Gallegos arrives and discerns Bridget’s whereabouts.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 8
A Coffee Crusade
Anthony Scopes is aboard the Echo searching for the dock on Encarnacion Peninsula. He encounters Bridget, who is aboard a skiff en-route to St. Matthew, and blackmails her into working with Integrated Foods and Ishmael’s Coffees.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 7
A Coffee Crusade
Bridget processes coffee cherries with Luis and Eva (Luis’s young niece). Eva becomes attached to Bridget. Bridget offers to assist the coffee growers in finding transportation for their beans. She explains why the CEA cannot buy beans directly from the Encarnacion growers.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 6
A Coffee Crusade
Bridget learns that Luis is leading her to Encarnacion Peninsula. Minister Gallegos searches for Bridget. Luis’s sister Teresa is working with others on Encarnacion, sorting recently hulled coffee beans.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 5
A Coffee Crusade
Luis and Bridget are detained by two Federals, under the orders of Minister Gallegos, who wants Bridget deported. The couple manages to escape into the wilderness. Gallegos discusses crooked business plans with Anthony Scopes.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 4
A Coffee Crusade
Luis and Bridget hike through the coffee hills around Amadica, meeting with farmers to discuss the benefits of joining the CEA. Coffee growers talk about the challenges and risks of joining the organization. Bridget learns that Luis was part of the United Front for the Liberation of Salavandra (UFLS), a revolutionary group that existed twenty years ago.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 3
A Coffee Crusade
Luis Florentino, the CEA liaison, is on Salavandra’s Encarnacion Peninsula where his sister’s family cultivates high-quality Arabica coffee. He hikes overland to his home near Amadica to meet Bridget. She lands in Salavandra’s airport and encounters rough treatment at the hands of the island’s Federal soldiers. She comes face-to-face with Salavandra’s Minister of Agriculture, Raphael Gallegos.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 2
A Coffee Crusade
Bridget Hall, Founder and President of CEA, is “cupping” coffees at her roasting facility in Brooklyn. She discusses her organization’s alternative trade strategies with her executive team. Later she meets Anthony Scopes of Integrated Foods—a massive food conglomerate. Scopes buys coffee for Ishmael’s Coffees, a consumer-end subsidiary of Integrated Foods.
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