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French Fashion Designer Gets Called Out for Copying Indigenous Mixe Oaxacan Clothing Design

Isabel Marant, a popular French fashion designer, is under fire for allegedly trying to copyright a design used by an indigenous community from Oaxaca, Mexico.

It all began with this Marant blouse.

Her typical design aesthetic is bohemian, relaxed chic with a flare of pattern. Cool looks, right? Wait…

Earlier this year, several people noticed the blouse closely resembled this indigenous Mixe Oaxacan design.

The design you see above is a blouse worn by the Mixe community in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca. They've been there for hundreds of years.

Here's a side-by-side comparison. The Oaxacan blouse costs 300 pesos (about $ 18). The Marant blouse sells for nearly $ 300.

Because before the style was in Paris, these women were proudly wearing them every day.

S *** really hit the fan when it was reported that Marant was seeking a copyright in France for the indigenous Oaxacan clothing design.

According to Vogue, Marant was battling with another clothing company, Antik Batik, which claimed to own the patent to the blouses.

If a patent was upheld, that means the Oaxacan community would have to pay the patent owner copyright fees to sell their blouses. Oaxaca's secretary for indigenous issues responded by filing a lawsuit to claim the intellectual rights of the design from Isabel Marant and Antik Balik.

After all the uproar, a rep for Marant sent Vogue magazine a statement in which she formally denies owning a patent for the design:

Marant is “setting the record straight” in a Paris, but it's clear she's still influenced by indigenous designs. These are some designs from her Spring / Summer 2016 Collection:

Mexico Prevents Indigenous Designs From Being Culturally Appropriated - Again

French label Isabel Marant came under fire for ripping off and exploiting the Mixe community's 600-year-old tradition

When designer Isabel Marant sent her spring / summer 2015 “Étoile” collection down the runway last year, she had no idea that the designs — which she later claimed were “inspired by” Mexico's indigenous Mixe community — would spur that community to action against her for plagiarism. After a year that included social media outcry, protests at Marant's New York store and a press conference held by the Mixe people, the group is finally getting some semblance of justice.

This month, Oaxaca's congress declared the Mixe community's traditional designs and language as Intangible Cultural Heritage per UNESCO guidelines. The protected status is not legally binding, but it recognizes that the designs are unique to, and originate in, Mixe culture.

But separately, Antik Batik tried to lay its own copyright claims to the design, and accused Marant of copying them. In December 2015, a French court ruled that neither Isabel Marant nor Antik Batik could copyright huipil shirts because they were a cultural artifact of the Mixe people.

Maria Reyna, Mixe Soprano singer

MEXICAN SOAP OPERA STAR THALIA TAKES PHILIPPINES BY STORM.

People leave work early to watch her. Parents name their girls after her. Authorities told the power company to make sure there are no blackouts while she's on. And a Manila man gave his life for her, stabbed because he wouldn't change the channel.

The sensation is Thalia, the star of `` Mari Mar, '' a Mexican soap opera that has hit the Philippines with the force of a typhoon in the current monsoon season.

Thalia flies into the Philippines today on a trip that promises as much pomp as many state visits. President Fidel Ramos has invited her to the presidential palace, and Channel 9 plans to air live footage of the nine-day trip, which it is sponsoring at a reported cost of $ 400,000.

Just three weeks after debuting as the first Mexican soap opera on Filipino television, `` Mari Mar '' surged to the top of the ratings, pushing aside a rival network's once-invincible `` TV Patrol '' news magazine, long the top- ranked news show in the Philippines.

While foreign soaps like `` Dynasty '' have been popular here before, the `` Mari Mar '' phenomenon has reached an entirely different level. It is the most popular serial on Filipino television ever.

`` Mari Mar '' tells the story of a peasant girl who comes to the city, entertaining passers-by as a clown on the streets in exchange for tips. She falls in love with her Prince Charming, but his stepmother separates them.

The show, which aired in Mexico a year ago, is scheduled to finish in the Philippines in October - unlike American soap operas, Mexican soaps run from six months to a year.

Entire households have rescheduled their lives from 6:30 to 7:30 pm to watch the daily soap, which is dubbed into Tagalog. Hospitals report a wave of babies named `` Mari Mar, '' Thalia's role in the show. Throughout the country, stores and offices have begun closing early.

`` I even sell my vegetables at a discount so I can get home early to watch `` Mari Mar, '' 'said Delia, a vegetable vendor at Manila's Paco market who gave only one name. `` The story is very Filipino and it gives me a good cry. ''

The civil service has warned that government employees found sneaking away to watch the show will be reprimanded on the first offense and face dismissal on the second.

Lawmakers in the town of Guimba, north of Manila, ordered the local power company not to schedule any power outages during the daily broadcast.

`` Very seldom do we see our people in Guimba preoccupied and mesmerized with such a soap opera, and to deprive them of such enjoyment would be to act like a killjoy, '' city council member Benny Rillo said.

One Manila man was even stabbed to death by a drunk cousin while watching `` Mari Mar '' because he refused to change to another channel.

Tabloids regularly feature photos of Thalia, a 25-year-old Mexican singer and actress, on their front pages. In a report on an earthquake in Mexico, the People's Tonight newspaper reported that the quake had affected the city where Thalia was born - and featured a picture of her in a mermaid costume.

President Ramos has invited Thalia to the presidential palace, and wrote a letter to Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo saying that the series has created a `` new kind of Philippine-Mexico connection. ''

Jorge Negrete's visit to Chile is classified as a "cultural milestone". The

visit that the Mexican singer and actor Jorge Negrete made to Chile in 1946 marked a "cultural milestone" in this South American country, where corridos and rancheras play "at home" in the downtown area. -south.

There is no memory in Chile of a greater reception than that of that June 26, 1946. There were five thousand fans (mostly women) of the Mexican singer and actor Jorge Negrete who crowded around the Mapocho Station waiting to see the idol in the flesh.

In the framework of the Santiago International Book Fair (Filsa), the Chilean historians César Albornoz and Jorge Iturriaga and the Mexican singer Abel de la Fuente referred to the figure of Negrete and the impact that his stay of almost a month had, as of June 1946.

Albornoz said in the discussion that "there is no figure linked to contemporary mass culture that has generated such significant relevance in Chilean cultural and social events as the figure of Jorge Negrete."

"I dare to affirm that Jorge Negrete constitutes the event that consecrates mass culture in Santiago de Chile. The year 1946 was marked by his visit, from which mass popular culture is enshrined in this country," he added.

"There is a whole generation that remembers Negrete, that remembers what he was doing when Negrete arrived in Chile and it is one of the events that remain in the collective memory," said Albornoz.

The historian indicated that the films, music and visit of the Mexican artist "constitute a symbolic representation that accounts for the meanings of our history."

He pointed out that no international figure who has visited Chile has generated the impact caused by Negrete's arrival at the Mapocho Station, a railway terminal that today houses a cultural center and currently Filsa.

Albornoz stressed that "the charro singer is one of the benchmarks of mass culture in Latin America, largely because the Mexican music industry was one of the most powerful in the region and also in the cinema."

For his part, Iturriaga commented that he made an analysis of the films "Ay Jalisco, no te rajes" (1941) and "Allá en el rancho grande" (1949), where Negrete participated, and pointed out that both "are a permanent popular festival ".

"There is party, dance, songs, serenades, alcohol, canteen, horse races, cards, bets, duels, cockfights, chases and romances, elements that make it impossible that they have not been a hit in their time," he said.

He added that "from there we are talking about a product that connects directly with popular peasant culture. It must be remembered that half of Chileans in those years were peasants and those who came to the city from the countryside maintained their peasant identity and habits. ".

He specified that "when seeing that list of stations and virtues in these films, one explains their success, because they connected with a festive popular fiber, something that the militant and committed cinema of the 60s considered as distracting."

He recalled that on a visit to Argentina in 1992, he found that the Boca Juniors fans had adapted the theme "There on the big ranch" to the songs from the bar, "and that seemed fascinating to me and I stayed with that song for several years. It was the main song of the club, the most sung and the most festive. "

While Abel de la Fuente recalled that shortly after his arrival in Chile, in 1999, he was surprised by "the taste that Chileans have for Mexican songs", after which he assured that the figure of Negrete "is an example to follow. for all the singers. "

"Everyone wanted to sing like Jorge Negrete, because of the feeling he gave to the songs. When I sing I feel like Jorge Negrete, I don't reach his heels, but I am transported, I feel like I'm in a scene from a romantic movie giving a serenade" , he pointed.

De la Fuente took the opportunity to sing some popular Mexican songs, which were acclaimed by those attending the conversation about the figure of the so-called "charro singer" and his link with this South American country.

The arrival of Negrete to Chile, which left 18 injured, brought together several thousand people on the outskirts of the Mapocho Station and in the center of the capital, in a stay that included visits to radio stations and six performances in two theaters of this capital. , among many other activities.

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There is no memory in Chile of a greater reception than that of that June 26, 1946. There were five thousand fans (mostly women) of the singer and Mexican actor Jorge Negrete who crowded around the Mapocho Station hoping to see the idol in the flesh.

Coming from Buenos Aires, Negrete got off the train to get into a convertible car and unleash the excitement of the people as he moved to the Hotel Carrera, located on the corner of Calle Teatinos and Agustinas. Then he would tour Santiago, singing on different radios and stages, bringing two sister towns even closer.

70 years have passed and such a fact marked Chilean society, never a popular idol had such a reception. That is why the National Cinema of Chile, the Embassy of Mexico and the National Cinema of Mexico have set out to properly celebrate one of the greatest Latin idols in history with the exhibition of five of his most famous films.

Thus, from Thursday the 23rd to Monday the 27th of June, at the Cineteca Nacional de Chile Cinema Room at the La Moneda Cultural Center, the public will be able to see -to discover or revisit- the charm of the so-called “Charro Cantor”. A magnetism that was expressed in the great popularity with which his films enjoyed, where he also interpreted his sticky rancheras, in theaters throughout Chile.

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JORGE NEGRETE VISITS CHILE

TACO BELL

Taco Bell is an American chain of fast-food restaurants based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., they serve a variety of Tex-Mex foods, including tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, other specialty items, and a variety of "value menu" items. Taco Bell serves more than 2 billion customers each year at 7,000 restaurants, more than 80 percent of which are owned and operated by independent franchisees and licensees.

Taco Bell was founded by Glen Bell, who first opened a hot dog stand called Bell's Drive-In in San Bernardino, California [3] in 1946 when he was 23 years old. In 1950, I opened Bell's Hamburgers and Hot Dogs in San Bernardino's West Side neighborhood. According to Gustavo Arellano, author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, Bell watched long lines of customers at a Mexican restaurant called the Mitla Cafe, located across the street, which attracted a dedicated customer base for its hard-shelled tacos. [ 4] [5] Bell began eating there regularly, attempting to reverse-engineer the recipe, and eventually won the confidence of the proprietors such that they allowed him to see how the tacos and other foods were prepared. [4] [5] In late 1951 or early 1952, he took what he had learned and opened a new stand,

Over the next few years, Bell owned and operated a number of restaurants in southern California including four called El Taco. Bell sold the El Tacos to his partner and built the first Taco Bell in Downey in 1962. In 1962, he sold Taco-Tia. Kermit Becky, a former Los Angeles police officer, bought the first Taco Bell franchise from Glen Bell in 1964, [3] and located it in Torrance. The company grew rapidly, and by 1967, the 100th restaurant opened at 400 South Brookhurst in Anaheim. In 1968, its first franchise location east of the Mississippi River opened in Springfield, Ohio. [6] In 1970, Taco Bell went public with 325 restaurants. In 1978, PepsiCo purchased Taco Bell from Glen Bell. [3] On the night of Nov. 19, 2015, the original Taco Bell building in Downey was moved to the Taco Bell Corporate Headquarters in Irvine, CA. [7]

Outside the United States

CANADA
Taco Bell has been present in Canada since 1981 with the first store opening in Windsor, Ontario. For some time it was possible to order draft beer with one's order. Taco Bell offers free soda refills in its stores.

There are currently Taco Bell locations in 7 of the 10 Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. [77]

CHILE
Taco Bell has fourteen stores in Chile, thirteen of which are operated in conjunction (and in the same facilities) with Pizza Hut. All Taco Bell stores are in shopping malls located mainly in Santiago.

GREECE
Greece's first Taco Bell opened in Athens upon the grand opening of the newly constructed Athens Metro Mall on November 30, 2010. [80] [81] The restaurant closed in August 2012 and the chain withdrew from the Greek market due to the country's recession. [82]

INDIA
India's first Taco Bell outlet opened at the Mantri Square mall, Bangalore. [84] Another outlet at the Gopalan Mall, Bangalore opened in February 2011.

JAPAN
Taco Bell once opened shops at Tokyo and Nagoya in the 1980s but withdrew in several years [85] and there are shops only in United States Forces Japan bases. [86] But in 2015, Taco Bell decided to challenge again and opened new shop at downtown area of ​​Shibuya, Tokyo. [85] It has "Taco rice" and "Shrimp and avocado burrito" as its original menu.

Spain is the most important market for Taco Bell inside Europe. There are 32 Taco Bell branches in Spain. [94] The first Taco Bell in Spain was opened at Naval Station Rota in 2004 and is available only to those authorized to access the naval base. [95] The first Taco Bell for the public was opened in the Islazul Shopping Mall, Madrid, in December 2008. [96] Yum! Brands announced that it would open additional restaurants in Spain in early 2009 as part of a test trial for the European market. [97] [98] The second location of Taco Bell in Spain was opened at the La Vaguada Shopping Mall, Madrid (03/2010). Taco Bell announced, at least, 10 new restaurants through Spain. [99]

As on March 2017, there are 32 Taco Bell restaurants in Spain; 13 of them are in Madrid, and the other 19 Taco Bell are distributed through Valencia (5), Málaga (2), Barcelona (2), Zaragoza (2), Alicante (2) and Jerez de la Frontera, Murcia, Cádiz, Granada, Sevilla and Naval Station Rota with 1 restaurant. [94]

SOUTH KOREA
There are currently two locations in Seoul, in the Itaewon and Hongdae districts, which attract the most foreigners and college students. The two branches opened in the summer of 2010, Itaewon's branch coming first. A Taco Bell had long been a presence at the US Army's Yongsan Garrison, which is off-limits to non-military people, and for a time there was a tongue-in-cheek grassroots campaign by non-Korean, non-military foreigners in Seoul to get another Taco Bell location. [100]

UNITED KINGDOM
The United Kingdom was the first European country with a Taco Bell. In 1986, a location was opened in London on Coventry Street (between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus) followed by a second location in Earls Court near the Earl's Court tube station. One other store opened in Uxbridge but all closed in the mid-1990s. [102] In 1994, the university food provider Compass announced plans for outlets on its university and college sites. However, only one store was opened at Birmingham University, which is now closed. [103] [104]

After the Birmingham University branch closed, there were only two Taco Bell branches in the UK, at the Strategic Air Command and United States Air Force bases at RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath. Access is restricted to relevant service personnel. [105]

In the late 2000s, Yum! Brands announced that it was reopening Taco Bell locations in the United Kingdom as part of a large planned expansion into Europe. Yum! is taking advantage of the recent recession which led to increasing sales at other fast food outlets; it also said that there was now a greater awareness of Mexican food in the UK and that it can be successful with improved menu offerings and marketing. [97] [98] The first new store opened at the Lakeside Shopping Center in Essex on June 28, 2010. [106] Another store opened in Basildon, Essex on November 29, 2010, and a third in the Manchester Arndale Food Court on November 7, 2011.

On March 1, 2013, it was announced that horse meat had been found in Taco Bell's beef in the UK , hampering the chain's growth in that already-stubborn market. [107]

As of December 2016, there are 14 Taco Bell branches in the UK from Southampton in the south of England to Manchester in the north. [108]

SAUDI ARABIA
Taco Bell has two restaurants in Riyadh and one in Khobar.

PHILIPINES
Taco Bell opened its first Philippine branch on October 30, 2004, at the Gateway Mall in Cubao, Quezon City. They now have one on the ground floor and one on the fourth floor in the food court at the Gateway Mall. They have also added another branch at the TriNoma mall in Quezon City.

ICELAND
Taco Bell in Iceland is operated as a part of the KFC establishment in Hafnarfjörður, suburb of Reykjavík. It was established in late 2006, after the departure of the US Navy from Naval Air Station Keflavik. A second location opened in the Ártúnshöfði part of Reykjavik in November 2008. [83] The Ártúnshöfði location is now closed and replaced by a new location in the nearby area of ​​Grafarholt (together with KFC). [Citation needed]

CYPRUS
A Taco Bell opened in Cyprus in December 2009 in Limassol at the MY MALL Limassol. Further restaurants are planned to be opened within the next 18 months (probably also in Cyprus' capital Nicosia). [78]

FINLAND
On June 15, 2017, Finnish restaurant company Restel (fi) announced that it's bringing Taco Bell to Finland. The first outlet is going to open in Helsinki region in fall 2017. [79]

OTHER COUNTRIES
Taco Bell is present in the Dominican Republic, Guam, Aruba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and on AAFES military bases in Germany, Iraq, Brazil, Guatemala, [109] and El Salvador ETC. [110] Taco Bell relaunched in the Chinese market when a store opened in Pudong, Shanghai in late 2015.

Their is Mexican influence in the daily life of 1.3 billion Indians. 
With out Mexico, Indian food would have no flavor 

COOKING WITH CHILI PEPPERS: CORNERSTONE OF INDIAN FOOD

INDIA AND ITS CHILI CONNECTION:

Although chili peppers historically originated in MEXICO , it’s no surprise that today, by a long margin, India is the world’s largest producer of chili peppers, or ‘chillies’ as they’re commonly referred to around the country.

For most of us who’ve had the pleasure of sweating it out over spicy but delcious Andhra food, it also makes sense that the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India produces majority of this essential Indian ingredient.

In spite of thousands of chili pepper varietals, the obvious question ‘which chili gets used where?’ doesn’t call for much thought back in India.

It’s commonly known that Kashmiri chilies are good for color and flavor with low levels of spiciness, while south Indian chili pepper types offer a stronger spice kick.

In a generations old display of the modern-day ‘Farm-to-Table’ concept, most Indian homes cook with the regional chili peppers produced and sold by their local farmers and spice stores.

And so like many Indian living outside India, during my early days in the US, the wide selection in western markets left me wondering on my chili pepper judgment for Indian food.

Based on the desired levels of spiciness, from highest to lowest, I’d suggest picking green/red Cayenne chili pepper, Thai green chili pepper or Serrano pepper; these chili peppers impart the kind of spicy taste required in India’s cuisines.

Habenero peppers, although spicier, can be too intense in authentic Indian cooking, while Jalapeño in a curry may as well be green bell pepper.