The Right to Stay Home: A Coffee Cooperative Slows Down Displacement

Café Justo offers a border story like no other. It is a story not of walls, drones, and towers, but of international solidarity, and how a community tended to its own migration crisis.

Farmers from Salvador Urbina, Chiapas, in front of the Cafe Justo roasting facility in Agua Prieta, Sonora for the 20th anniversary on November 4, 2022. (Photo credit: Todd Miller)

Two decades ago, Carlos Alonso López Abamba lived and worked in Atlanta, Georgia. But then he came back to Mexico to work in his family’s coffee farm near his hometown of Salv…