If El Salvador is successful in being able to charge more for its coffee on the world market, Dr Monro said coffee farmers from other Latin American countries like Guatemala have expressed interest in using shaded coffee production.

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For example, he opens his book by parachuting into a day's work as a coffee picker in Guatemala.

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Then, recharge your spirits with an included tour of Finca Filadelfia, a traditional coffee plantation for which Guatemala has become famous.

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Along one wall of the 12-seat cafe, piles of freshly imported coffee beans from Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia stood next to stacks of decades-old US records, and the trumpets of jazz musicians Chet Baker and Miles Davis resonated from a vinyl turntable.

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After a year of imprudent policies coupled with low world prices for the country's staple exports (bananas, coffee and sugar), Mr Arzu will leave Guatemala with high fiscal and current-account deficits, slowing economic growth, a sharp depreciation in the quetzal, weak banks and depleted reserves.

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You and a fellow adventurer will receive five nights in five-star accommodations, daily breakfast, domestic airfare from Tikal at the Munda Maya International Airport to Guatemala City, round-trip airport transfers, and guided tours of a Guatemalan coffee farm, Lake Atitlan, and Tikal National Park.

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Drought in Central America has cost Guatemala perhaps 10% of its grain and hard-hit El Salvador 30% of its coffee.

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Sugar is about to become Guatemala's major agrarian expor t and might alleviate some problems resulting from the heavy focus on coffee and banana production.

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