Thursday, February 16, 2006

My Coffee/Colonial History I


El Salvador was opened up to the world due to its coffee, and in the late 19th century, the Quinonez clan was the most powerful among the ranks of the Salvadoran oligarchy, helping to suppress and marginalise millions of indigenous people so that the world can feel awake in the morning.

2 comments:

Quitmoanez said...

This story has a twist:

As it turns out, my links to the Quinonez's are not European, they are Indigenous, emerging from Guatemala.

Krahn said...

The best is that the picture does not in any way give a sense of suppression or oligarchy