Yemen's Conflict Coffee (clip)

The u.s. Is the world's second
biggest importer of coffee.

It is a very labor intensive. Crop

can take three to four years for a
plant to Bear. The kind of fruit.

We would roast and grind,

but the two people typically paid,
the least in the chain are the farmer.

And the Barista learning about coffee is
about learning where your dollar goes.

We follow one of those chains
from Michigan to Yemen.

Hello. Hey, how are you?

Would you recommend today? You wanted
something with cream and night cream,

cream. Those go with them.

So, everything for here, right? Yes, sir.

A human has, a bunny is
a coffee Mogul in making

in 2017. He opened his
first shop in Dearborn,

and is now branching out to two locations.

One across town and another in New York.

He's not selling your average American
style. Filtered coffee, though.

It has two bunnies. Coffee
beans are from Yemen.

Good guys.

Thank you. We gonna make
one son and one juvenile.

Okay, Wilson, and I'm going to
use the medium roast with the

Mm. Mm, for the Jubilee we use.
Light roast, medium, roast,

coffee house, Ginger. Cinnamon.
Cardamom God. It's like

special mix. So, this is like
the gateway drug into Yemen. Yes.

It's like Bridge doesn't have
sugar, but yemeni coffee is famous.

It has natural Sweetness in it

and I take my coffee with sugar every
morning, but I can drink this without sugar,

good.

That's to gonna change your mind.

These coffee beans are sweeter because
they're grown in the highest mountainous.

Regions of the country.

Why is coffee so important for
um, flaming first is our culture.

We drink coffee everyday.

It's also open Yemen
to the other countries.

So when they start shipping to
different countries people, they

read more about Yemen,
they want to visit them.

And they want to see what's
different about you, man.

How old were you? When you
had your first cup of coffee?

So my mom, she told me when I was a kid,

I had two things coffee and
a spicy. Since the, if the

Something wrong with this baby. Yemen,
may have been the first to drink coffee,

nearly a thousand years ago, when it exported
it, out of a famous Port called mocha,

but, colonialism conflict and the
rising popularity of coffee crops.

Elsewhere, overtook it

and has a bunny left home in 2011,
but his brother still back in her has

running the family's coffee Farm. Hello.

Hello salaam alaikum.

Huh?

Look.

How did she get in trouble?
They'll try to give me a hug

and it's almost 45 years,

a rebel militia based in the north. The
houthis has been fighting with a coalition

backed by the Saudis for control.

The Coalition blocked.
Most imports from coming in

and the fighting has made life
in the Region's poorest country.

Hell more than 100,000
people have died so far.

From airstrikes famine and rampant disease

and exporting. Anything amid. All of
this chaos is sometimes, impossible.

It's cheaper to attempt
this only once a year

and the only way to keep the beans fresh
is to roast and grind them in the US.

You must really believe in this yemeni
coffee. Yes, first, I believe in our brand,

I believe, in our yemeni coffee beans, as
one of the best companies in the world.

Also, I believe in myself.

I didn't listen to anyone. I just said

I spend all saving, I have 41k, a
break it down. I guess I use it.

I use all my credit card.
I use all the money I have.

So everybody will be your crazy

when people first hear the word
Yemen, they think of a current War.

Bloodshed,

but to you, Yemen, signifies
something else. It's not in my life.

It's my birth place.

I stopped watching news, actually, especially
ones come to him. And it's just said,

I'm fired right here,
and I can't do nothing.

It's just, I can't control my
emotion. I can't control myself.

It's bothering me from inside.

Oh, my family. So there I have
my sister said she was sick

and because it was no hospital in
here, man. It is no doctors normal said

she was away in the way and because

they take her to the hospital and they
said, they didn't do nothing for her.

So they send her back
home and she get worse.

They take her back to the
hospital. She didn't make it.

Do you ever feel guilty

that you're here and there?
They're back in a war zone.

Sometimes I feel guilty because I'm not
next to them. Family is very important.

Other side, when I
found not guilty because

at least I'm here to
support them to help them.

If all of us stuck there, you
don't know what's going to happen.

What are your hopes for a better? You

this war has to end.

This is first second. We have
to be all yemeni together.

What are you thinking about?
I just wanna get emotional.

That's why I'm yeah.

It just said I was crazy about me.

When I remember those people as
Nana, they fight. It's not just,

it's really bad.

Okay, if we're not, not gonna do nothing,
nothing gonna change.