00:00In Guatemala, cooperativism has become a model of economic autonomy for remote communities
00:06financial system. In addition, they are concerned with cultural rescue, as is the case with an experience in Santa Maria Teja in Ixcan Quiche.
00:16A Mayan ball game ceremony of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala is presented in Santa Maria Teja,
00:23Ixcan Quiche. It stages fragments of the sacred book of the Quiches, the Popol Vuj.
00:30There are codexes,
00:33meaning vessels, where it specifies what our ancestors practiced, and definitely this was a game that they played,
00:41practiced, and modified.
00:43The ceremony is part of the 10th anniversary of a cooperative that, in addition to its economic activity, has been dedicated to promoting
00:52solidarity, social and cultural activities for remote communities.
00:56The support to the people, to the communities, to the different peoples,
01:03must also be comprehensive.
01:05This is the contribution that cooperatives make by copying the cooperative principles that are being promulgated at present.
01:13This financial option was created by farmers, domestic workers, and professionals,
01:18who, like most cooperatives, are part of the economic autonomy of the communities, according to a government official.
01:26They are financial institutions that give people the opportunity to move their economy,
01:32where there are not even banks. Far from thinking negatively about cooperatives, they are definitely necessary institutions.
01:42The efforts of Cochijar L. in Ixcan Quiche demonstrate the impact of cooperativism in several regions of the country,
01:49which are also generating employment, according to an official of a federation of cooperatives.
01:55Cooperatives, apart from offering low interest rates and opportunities for growth through credit,
02:00we also consider them to be sources of employment and opportunities for many families.
02:05There are more than a thousand cooperatives registered with the National Institute of Cooperatives,
02:11of which more than 300 are savings and credit cooperatives, most of which serve the rural population.
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