The female wrestlers of Bolivia

[Rutiger]

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They are like birds of paradise swirling around each other in a mating dance. Except their wings are layered petticoats and tasselled shawls, and they are not wooing but body slamming, hair pulling and landing flying kicks. They are the ‘fighting cholitas’, or cholitas luchadoras, female wrestlers in what is Bolivia’s answer to Mexican lucha libre. “The cholitas are indigenous women who were neglected because they were on the margins of society, but… since Bolivia has been ruled by Evo Morales, who has indigenous roots, they have gained more recognition,” Daniele Tamagni tells BBC Culture.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/201603 ... of-bolivia

[Duncan]

If they were respectable ladies, they would be wearing stiletto high heel shoes.

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