Today at Doka Estates, in addition to chilling on giant piles of coffee, I got to pick coffee beans and discovered what crummy, thankless and worthless work it is. It took 21 people (my group) 20 minutes of frantic picking to earn $6 US. The average trabador de cafe works 10-12 hour per day to earn $15-20 US. Most of these workers are undocumented Nicaraguans who rely on this tiny income to support large families who fled privation and anarchy in their own country. If this makes you rethink your feelings about Mexican laborers, good.