Coffee Travels to Latin America

Coffee first arrived in Latin America when the Dutch gave a healthy coffee plant to the French government. After nine years, Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu, introduced coffee cultivation to colony of Martinique. De Cliue nursed a coffe plant on his voyage at the Atlantic Ocean. He protected the coffee plant from the passenger and even watered the plant with his limited wate supply. Once it finally set down its root in Martinique, the coffee tree flourished. From that single plant came much of the world's current coffee supply.
Then in 1727, Francisco De Melo Palheta smuggled coffee cherries to Brazil by presenting to the Governor's wife a bouquet of flowers with ripe coffee cherries disguised in the interior.He planted it in his home territory at Para, from which coffee travels Southward.