history – CEDEI

Understanding National Politics (with some killer pictures from Saraguro)

April 23, 2018

“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” – C. Wright Mills Here’s a beautiful landscape in Saraguro to catch your attention! As my trip in Ecuador is beginning to wind down, I really want to impart some of the knowledge that I’ve picked up through my journey. Some of the most important knowledge I’ve gained concerns the creation of the Ecuadorian culture and reality. If you haven’t seen it,…

Curious Chronicles Concerning (E)cuadorian Coffee

Now that I´ve written a bit about my tastes for Cuencan coffee, I decided that it´d be a swell idea to educate everyone on the history of Ecuadoran coffee, because it´s pretty interesting. So, Ecuador is one of the few places in the world that is able to grow quality coffee in extremely different biomes. They say that coffee needs to be grown at high altitudes to be quality, but Ecuador is able to cultivate its coffee beans at altitudes…