Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says Orlando Quintero Gonzales, an agronomist in Colombia’s Eje Cafetero, or the ...

Carlos Lehder, one of the founding leaders of the Medellín Cartel and a key figure in the history of cocaine trafficking, was ...

As you descend farther, you actually start hiking right along the Quindio river ... the entire year. The mountains of the Cocora Valley, like all of Colombia, are frequently visited by clouds.

Before, the seasons seemed etched into the calendar, with well-defined periods of drought and rain. Today, the climate has ...

People drink more than two billion cups of coffee every day, and Colombia is one of the world ... Coffee here is grown in small farms, high up in the mountains, where the conditions are just ...

These cities standout for third-wave coffee scenes with pour overs, espressos, and more single-origin coffee at specialty ...

BOGOTA, March 31 (Reuters) - Colombia's central bank held the benchmark interest rate at 9.5% on Monday, surprising the market, which expected policymakers to resume cuts to borrowing costs ...