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Carlos Sánchez, with his faithful mule, Conchita, is making way for a younger face after personifying the archetypal Colombian coffee grower Juan Valdez for nearly four decades.

Colombia's coffee icon to pass the reins

Growers search for 21st-century Juan Valdez

By Indira A. R. Lakshmanan
Globe Staff / June 1, 2006

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