The Jimenez family are based a short drive out of Guatemala, on the slopes of the Jumaytepeque Volcano, near the town of Santa Rosa, which isn’t Mataquescuintla at all, but we’re going with Mataquescuintla because…reasons….

Romeo Jimenez Perez’s farm, Finca Xanxino, neighbours the farms of his sons, Quelvin (the lawyer for the Xinca Parliament, resisting the Escobal Mine), Eder, and Sarai.

Region: Casillas, Santa Rosa
Variety: Yellow Catuai, Bourbon, Pache San Ramon
Altitude: 1800m
Processing: Washed - Raised bed dried
Harvested: March 2024

We encourage you to inform yourself on the activities of Vancouver-based, Pan American Silver, and their conduct with regards to the Escobal Mine, in San Rafael Las Flores, Guatemala.

This coffee is sourced from a group of Indigenous Xinca coffee producers who farm coffee in the mountains above this mine. They have formed a resistance to the mine, on the basis of the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which states many important rights for indigenous peoples, one being allowing indigenous peoples’ right to own type of governance and to have input on economic development on their territorial lands. The group was successful in having the mine closed, however this came at the cost of being violently targeted by mine-employed private security, police, and local government, which is still ongoing today.

Our goal with this project, which we helped start in 2017, is to empower these coffee producing families with a stable market and high prices for their coffees, giving them the ability invest time into ensuring the Escobal Mine stays closed and trucks are not able to transport harmful chemicals through the region without sacrificing their livelihoods. This work ensures they are able to continue to produce coffee in a pristine natural environment, free from instabilities brought by harmful extractive practices and larger scale problems exacerbated by climate change.