Episodios

  • A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 1

    A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 1
    Jun 4 2009
    Ethan McCray, a representative of The Coffee Exchange Alliance (CEA), is aboard the Cassiopeia in the Caribbean Sea. He is smuggling coffee from the island of Salavandra with Christopher Knox, the skipper. Evil plans hatch before the boat ever reaches Kingston.
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    39 m
  • A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 2

    A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 2
    Jun 4 2009
    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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    43 m
  • A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 3

    A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 3
    Jun 4 2009
    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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    38 m
  • A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 4

    A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 4
    Jun 4 2009
    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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    38 m
  • A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 5

    A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 5
    Jun 4 2009
    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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    35 m
  • A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 6

    A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 6
    Jun 4 2009
    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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    38 m
  • A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 7

    A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 7
    Jun 6 2009
    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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    36 m
  • A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 8

    A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 8
    Jun 6 2009
    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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    40 m