Colin Greenwood

Would you kill for a cup of coffee?

El Salvador’s violent revolution at the end of the 20th century was directly linked to the infamous practices of the country’s coffee plantation owners

Workers on a coffee plantation in Chalchuapa, El Salvador. Credit: Getty Images

  • Coffeeland: A History

    Augustine Sedgewick

    Allen Lane, pp. 419, £25

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