The Alliance of Rural Communities seeks to support and develop financially independent, community owned Chocolate Businesses & affiliated projects using rural resources, labor & creativity.

The National Polytechnic Institute was created in a social environment with notorious imbalances. Currently, the Institute is an instrument of the State to contribute to the development of the country through education, research, technological development and dissemination of culture. However, the phenomena of globalization have multiple expressions in all the orders of social life that are now clearly discernible, among others: cultural and consumer patterns, influence of the mass media, configuration of educational structures (new academic models , Etc.), dissemination of knowledge and innovation.