For many in Mexico, cacao is more than just a bean. In its preparation, there is resistance, memory, rituals, identity, and friends and family. There's also a melange of incredible flavors.
Small measures are no longer enough, as the consequences of an increasingly unstable climate wreak havoc on communities around the world.
The U.S. Congress could put an end to U.S. complicity in the crimes against humanity being committed by military forces in Yemen. Congress could insist that the U.S. stop supplying the Saudi led coalition with weapons, stop helping Saudi jets to refuel, end diplomatic cover for Saudi Arabia, and stop providing the Saudis with intelligence support.
In France, as in the United States and many other countries, real change may be coming, but it will require some more years of struggle for that.
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