Overview
- Financiera para el Bienestar reported about 6,000 credits delivered from roughly 11,000 applications, totaling around 170 million pesos toward a 500 million peso goal.
- Créditos a la Palabra provide up to 30,000 pesos per beneficiary at zero interest with extended repayment terms and no burdensome paperwork or intermediaries.
- The rollout targets five Amuzgo municipalities across Guerrero and Oaxaca: Xochistlahuaca, Tlacoachistlahuaca, Ometepec, San Pedro Amuzgo and Santa María Ipalapa.
- INAES said it will help form cooperatives and create commercialization channels so artisans can sell at fair prices in national and international markets.
- Officials emphasized preserving the huipil and waist-loom weaving while ensuring women artisans can earn a living from their work, with the governor lauding them as cultural ambassadors.