Tenejapa

Cafeólogo is a project founded by Jesús Salazar, focussing mainly on indigenous coffee growers in the highlands around San Cristobal de las Casas in central Chiapas, the southernmost region of Mexico. San Cristobal is located rather close to the border with Guatemala, and is in fact only around 200 km or about a 5 hour drive from San Marcos Huista in Huehuetenango, where we continually work with our Guatemalan partners from Primavera.

In 2010, Jesús began working with 4 small producers, but soon many others in the area were curious about the project, and the prices they could be paid for their coffee through their access to the speciality market. To be able to accept so many more farmers into the project, Jesús realised that quality control would become very difficult. For many years, Cafeólogo added value to each producer’s work through careful processing, building community wet mills to process coffee from surrounding farmers.