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In the 1980s the Sandinistas revolution toppled a dictatorship. Though criticised by the Reagan administration, idealists all over the world supported them. They flocked to help the rural population sustain an economy by picking coffee. We take a tour of a former state-run coffee farm in Nicaragua.

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