Xóchitl Eréndira Zolueta Juan has a law degree and a master's degree in law from the unam Law School. She is a specialist in indigenous law, human rights and environmental law; she has experience in civil, criminal, family and amparo litigation. She collaborates with national and international non-governmental organizations, giving workshops, courses, diploma courses and seminars. She has worked at the Instituto Nacional Indigenista and the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. She has teaching experience at the Law School of unam, the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Mexico City, the Institute for Professional Training and Higher Studies of the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City and the Benito Juarez University for Wellbeing. Currently he also collaborates with the Chimalli, Derechos Culturales collective.

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Debates on Cultural Heritage and the Commercialization of Collective Expressions

  • Aura Cumes
  • Jesús Antonio Machuca Ramírez
  • Suely Kofes
  • Xóchitl Eréndira Zolueta Juan

  • moderator Rachel Barber

In the last decade, a wave of accusations has been launched against brands and companies for using cultural elements of indigenous groups. In Mexico, several cases have had considerable resonance: the complaint by the Mixe community of Tlahuitoltepec against the French company Isabel Marant for copying its Xaam nïxuy blouse; the protest by the Secretary of Culture, Alejandra Frausto, against the fashion house of Carolina Herrera for the use of embroidery from Tenango de Doria and the sarape from Saltillo; and on three different occasions the fashion clothing company Zara has been accused of plagiarism for using designs from Aguacatenango, Chiapas.