Mexican artisans exchange typical crafts for food

Mexico's Otomi community barter for goods in order to face the coronavirus pandemic

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In order to face the COVID-19 pandemic, the Otomi community asks for solidarity of the population, exchanging typical crafts for food, general cleaning equipment and other products.
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Indigenous Otomi Maricela Perez, wears a face shield reading 'We stop this virus together' as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, while waiting for customers to barter their crafts for goods in Mexico City.
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Indigenous Otomi women Mariana Gonzalez (R) and Maricela Perez wait for customers to barter their crafts for goods in Mexico City.
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A woman wearing a face mask bartered for goods to Otomi indigenous women in Mexico City.
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Mariana Gonzalez (L) and Maricela Perez, members of indigenous Otomi ethnic group wear a face shield as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, while bartering crafts for goods in Mexico City.
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Handmade dolls of the Otomi ethnic community.
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A customer holds a handmade doll of the Otomi ethnic community in Mexico City.
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Mariana Gonzalez of the indigenous Otomi ethnic group wearing a protective mask shows the different dolls to a woman who arrived with merchandises to change for crafts in Mexico City.
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ndigenous Otomi Maricela Perez waits for customers to barter their crafts for goods in Mexico City.
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Indigenous Otomi women Mariana Gonzalez (R) and Maricela Perez waits for customers to barter their crafts for goods in Mexico City.
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