South America’s Coffee Mecca Is Bouncing Back
Originally published in VICE Magazine, April 3, 2017. Don Elias is taking life easy. At nearly 70 years old, most of his working life has been spent in the coffee fields of Quindío—an unbelievably beautiful Andean region—first with his father, and then, for the past two decades, on his own four-hectare plantation. About 180 miles…