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A Coffee Crusade
by Theodore Isaac Erski
Bridget Hall is a driven & successful entrepreneur running a non-profit company named the Coffee Exchange Alliance. She's working to establish a fair-trade business presence on the Caribbean island of Salavandra, but must overcome the corrupt Minister of Agriculture, Rafael Gallegos, who profits by marginalizing the island's farmers and smuggling their coffee to Jamaica. Bridget tackles personal & professional challenges on Salavandra that ultimately shake her belief in the choices she's made in life as well as in her self-appointed role as savior of the island's coffee farmers.
Episodes
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 11
Minister Gallegos separately confronts Bridget and Scopes as Federal troops move across the peninsula. The future of the Encarnacion farmers hangs in the balance.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 10
Bridget discusses her activities with the CEA executive team, but their conversation is interrupted. From Eva she learns about Salavandra's Federal troops overrunning the coffee operation. Teresa blames Bridget for the peninsula's discovery and breaks Eva's friendship with Bridget.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 9
Two Federals detain Luis and interrogate him about Bridget's location. Minster Gallegos arrives and discerns Bridget's whereabouts.
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 8
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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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 7
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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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 6
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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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 5
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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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 4
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...
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 3
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...
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 2
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...
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A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 1
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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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Bridget Hall is a driven & successful entrepreneur running a non-profit company named the Coffee Exchange Alliance. She's working to establish a fair-trade business presence on the Caribbean island of Salavandra, but must overcome the corrupt Minister of Agriculture, Rafael Gallegos, who profits by marginalizing the island's farmers and smuggling their coffee to Jamaica. Bridget tackles personal & professional challenges on Salavandra that ultimately shake her belief in the choices she's made in life as well as in her self-appointed role as savior of the island's coffee farmers.
HOSTED BY
Theodore Isaac Erski
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