APEC: Growing Indigenous Businesses Through Trade 2024 Mexican Participant Profiles
Australia strengthens bond with Mexican Indigenous communities.
The two-day workshop in Mexico City brought together Indigenous businesses from various states of Mexico representing products such as traditional clothing, jewellery and dolls, coffee, honey, natural salts, wine and spirits. Most of the participants were women entrepreneurs.
We thank the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for funding this project under the auspices of APEC – Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and for the invaluable support received from the Mexico’s Secretariat of Economy.
We look forward to future commercial collaboration between Australian and Mexican Indigenous businesses, including our participants.
Click on the names of the entrepreneurs to find out more about their businesses
Retoño Group
Produce and distribute ancestral beverages and Mexican distillates
Comerciante
Social leader and president of the traditional indigenous authority
Indigenous Women’s Cooperative
Marta Alejandra Gutierrez Carreon
Backstrap loom handicrafts, hand embroidery, traditional indigenous costumes, cinnamon production, coffee, pepper, fruit liqueurs and traditional yolixpa drink with healing properties, jams
Industria Silvicola Zona Maya
Karen Azucena Couoh Gomez
Parts for radial cut guitars and handicrafts.
Technological Institute of Puebla/ Maseual Xicaualis Cooperative
Organic and conventional coffee, virgin honey of meliponids and derivatives, virgin and conventional cinnamon, virgin and conventional pepper.
Maxa kwaxi
Wixarika art, contemporary and traditional jewelry in beads, as well as loom bags, cross-stitch embroidery, bags, costumes, decoration of figures with beads, worsted painting, personalized and accessories for children.
Ollin Quetza, A.C.
Livi Shandel Gallegos Velázquez
Non-profit institution that works on environmental and social projects with rural and indigenous populations.
Jamuchim Lilam – Mujeres Violeta AC
Nalyndesirette Chable Geronimo
Linguist and Advocate for Indigenous Peoples