Mexico City. The federal government will encourage indigenous women who make crafts not to be victims of intermediaries, so that they can sell their creations at fair prices and without haggling, in addition to avoiding plagiarism, said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
This Thursday morning she explained that part of the problem faced by artisans from indigenous peoples is that they do not have marketing spaces, which forces them to sell to intermediaries at low prices, and they then sell those pieces at higher prices.
Questioned about her approach to expanding from one to four annual editions of Original: Encuentro de Arte Textil Mexicano – as she announced yesterday when leading the start of activities of that fair – she pointed out that this will serve to provide more marketing spaces.
“Women who come from communities, from indigenous peoples, also men, but mainly women, develop different crafts, popular art, which are extraordinary beauties, they are textiles, but they also work with wood, and many other forms of cultural expression, Part of the problem is that they do not have marketing spaces; many times they are victims of intermediaries who acquire the product at a low cost and then sell it at a higher cost.
“What we want is to reduce this step so that there can be commercialization, they can sell the crafts at fair prices, without haggling because there is that practice and that it recovers,” he said.
He said that another objective is to avoid plagiarism by many companies that commit this crime and steal “drawings that are so beautiful and that do not even carry the copyright of women and indigenous communities.”
The head of the Executive stressed that this “wonderful” tradition that is part of the cultural wealth of Mexico must be preserved.
“There are few countries in the world that express themselves through this wealth of popular art and craftsmanship. We want to show it off, but we want the benefit to come to those who make it.
Carry out “rerias, spaces, and strengthen the National Fund for the Promotion of Crafts (Fonart), which is an institution that was born a long time ago and had that objective and now we want to strengthen, and at the same time continue defending the priority objective.”
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