After this hurricane, Puerto Rico never regained its position as a coffee exporter.
Since then it is supported by the country's coffee exporters and by the fans who are getting stronger through time.
After this hurricane, Puerto Rico would never become a coffee exporter again.
Despite a number of alarms, the business eventually flourished, becoming for a while one of the largest coffee exporters from Brazil.
Most of the country's economy was based on coffee plantations, and Brazil was already the main coffee exporter in the world (since the 1850s).
Because of new warehouse fees, Brazilian coffee exporters have had to unload their coffee onto the world market, he added.
As world trade contracted, the coffee exporters suffered a vast drop in foreign exchange earnings.
In the 1830s, Venezuela was the third largest coffee exporter in the world.
All these changes have resulted in Venezuela losing its position as one of the world's largest coffee exporters.
Colombia continues to be the world's second-largest coffee exporter, after Brazil.