Meet Elisa and her kids from Monterrey, Mexico, who visit a street market in search of a costume to attend a Harry Potter-themed party.

There’s a long way from the coffee tree to a delicious cup of coffee. Here’s where we start our Yabla-exclusive journey to unveil the secrets of world-famous Colombian coffee. Our first episode takes us inside a central warehouse where coffee from several Colombian regions undergoes a strict process of quality control.

The quest for an excellent cup of coffee continues. Now we’re in the lab working to get rid of impurities by threshing and selecting the best coffee beans.

You can almost smell the coffee as Part 3 of our documentary takes us through the roasting process.

After all the bean sorting, cleaning, grinding and toasting we witnessed in our previous segments of Una Historia de Café, it’s finally time to boil up some water and do a little tasting, or “cupping,” as it’s known in laboratory circles. You might want to fire up your percolator; we have a feeling you’ll be craving some caffeine any moment now!

Viviana really enjoys studying Political Economy at the UAM [Autonomous Metropolitan University]. She tells us about her major and the plans that she has for the future and shares some insights about the large social gap that exists in Mexico.

Paty loves her university as much as she loves her city. In this video she tells us about the wide variety of museums and other interesting places that Mexico City has to offer.

Ana is very happy to be a student at the UAM [Autonomous Metropolitan University]. She says that the UAM is one of the best Universities in Mexico: it is affordable, flexible and offers academic excellence.

Economics is all about the production and consumption of goods and services. Usually, we associate it with numbers and acronyms but in the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana they see the people behind the data. Crista is one of those students willing to chat about her school and her city.

We are at Mexico City’s public university talking with Manuel. He tells us about the contrasts that exist within his neighborhood and what he thinks about the relationship between the United States and Mexico.

Learn the names of the four most popular swimming strokes in Spanish with Valeria, who will explain to us some characteristics of each of these challenging styles.

Juan is a seller of large garden plants in the fashionable La Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City. Luckily for us, he was willing to tell us a little about his lovely merchandise, most of which grows native in the lush mountains of Oaxaca.

Fate has brought Sandra and Sonia, one Spanish the other Venezuelan, together in Germany. In this video Sonia tells Sandra about her trip and about her career in Preschool Education.

Maximiliano, a young Venezuelan living in the South of Italy, explains a bit about its culture and customs, particularly during Christmastime.

Zoraida from Venezuela speaks to us from Linkenheim, Germany, where we’ll visit two lakes: one natural and the other artificial.