Mexico's Puebla: colonial charm & exciting coffees: Part 2: Maja Wallengren continues her exploration of Puebla's least known yet most dedicated and hardworking coffee producers.

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, September, 2004 by Wallengren, Maja

Driving through spectacular scenery, the narrow rural roads of the Xicotepec region go through the "Devil's Throat," a steep rift dropping 200 meters straight to each side of the road against the backdrop of the Tobacco mountains, which forming the central part of Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains once was home to tobacco farming.

The rugged landscape, which for centuries was only crossed by the toughest locals on foot or horseback until the highways were built only half a decade ago, is telling of the strong will of the people in Puebla, Mexico known as Poblanos.

Northern Xicotepec de Juarez is a one and a half hour drive from the Tajin archeological site in neighboring Veracruz state, where since early history the Olmecs have had their cultural...

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