
Resilience with the Aroma of Coffee
Following the earthquake in Colombia’s Coffee Region, Buencafé resumes 100% of operations and unites to support the reconstruction of local coffee growers.
Every year, the International Coffee Reign, an important event attached to what is known as the best fair in America, moves from the city of Manizales to the municipality of Chinchiná, in the department of Caldas, so that its participants, women from different coffee growing countries of the world, visit the facilities of Buencafé, the company of Colombian coffee growers. This year, the appointment will be on Friday, January 10, 2025, for a tour full of music, coffee and happiness, which will begin at the company and end in the plaza.
The 25 candidates participating this year for the crown are Daniela Martínez Córdoba (Argentina), Fabiane Valdivia Zambrana (Bolivia), Cristiane Stipp (Brazil), Arshdeep Thind (Canada), Camila Tascón (Colombia), Ata Torres (Costa Rica), Rachel Martín Padilla (Cuba), Mariana Narváez (Ecuador), Linda Sibrian (El Salvador), Ainara Martínez (Spain), Brianna Morales (United States), Ilona Munoz (France), Grecia Murillo (Guatemala), Izza Sevill (Honduras), Danna Larrañaga (Mexico), Karla González (Nicaragua), Melanie Ulloa Acosta (Panama), Luz Marina Benítez (Paraguay), Gianella Giles (Peru), Martyna Rurańska (Poland), Carlota Lobo (Portugal), Mariely Colón Sánchez (Puerto Rico), Nicole Reynoso (Dominican Republic), Gala Brajús (Uruguay) and Valeria Cárdenas (Venezuela).
For Buencafé it is an honor, and a source of great emotion, to receive the candidates, they will be bringing the joy of the Manizales Fair to every corner of Chinchiná, positively impacting a coffee-growing community par excellence, which also prepares each year to share with those women aspiring to the crown of this very important contest.

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