In the mid-1980s, Mexican coffee farmers told the Dutch aid organization Solidaridad that they were barely making ends meet. As long as an international glut of coffee kept prices for the raw beans down, aid from industrial countries was not much help. In addition, Solidaridad learned that the grow­ ers and their families became sick when using fungicides and other toxic chemicals that were in vogue around the world. All of this was being endured for each cup of espresso and cappuccino enjoyed by Dutch citizens thousands of miles away-not by Mexicans.1