The Nike logo is displayed on a window at a Nike store on March 21, 2019 in San Francisco, California.PANAMA - US sportswear giant Nike said Tuesday it was withdrawing its latest shoe after Panama's indigenous Guna community accused it of"pirating" a protected traditional design.
After being contacted by AFP, a Nike spokesperson said:"We apologize for the inaccurate representation of the design origin for the Nike Air Force 1 'Puerto Rico' 2019. As a result, this product will no longer be available." "So the company has to compensate us because it was an illegal copy of our designs," Valiente said, adding that they had"already sent a note of protest" to Nike.
Lopez said the Guna people's case against Nike was"not the only one in the world. Thousands of designs and the ancestral knowledge of indigenous people are being pirated by multinational companies."