By EFE, Vision 360: Promotion and Tradition The shows offered by the cholita wrestlers, or “wrestling cholitas” as they are called by foreigners, began at the beginning of this century in the city of El Alto, neighboring La Paz. Cholitas in Action. Photo: Efe Bolivian Roberto Mamani Mamani and a group of cholita wrestlers joined…
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10 Bolivian Women Who Changed the Course of History
Written by Christina Noriega for Remezcla: In 1930s Bolivia, a powerful labor rights movement that upended all conventions of the times emerged. Indigenous and working-class women who were usually relegated to the margins walked front-and-center in protests. Cooks, florists, market vendors and other women in undervalued professions unionized. Cholas, Indigenous and mestiza women who dress in…
Apple Releases two Spanish Ads focused on the iPhone XS Documenting the lives of Bolivian Women Wrestlers
Patiently Apple reports: Apple has two stores in Brazil (01 and 02) and one in Sante fe, Mexico City with a second one in the works in Antara Fashion Hall in Ciudad de Mexico. Yesterday Apple released two new iPhone ads in Spanish about Bolivian Female Wrestlers. The first new ad covers the Flying Cholitas which is an…
In Bolivia, a new generation of wrestlers in bowler hats
Paola Flores, AP reports for The Washington Post: Young cholita wrestler Dona Chevas, 16, top, holds the legs of her rival, fellow trainee Simpatica Sonia, 24, as they compete in the ring in El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2019. A new generation of athletes is coming to one of the world’s more colorful sporting…
Meet the Women Wrestling Their Way to Equality in the High Andes
By LAURENCE BUTET-ROCH, Photographs by LUISA DÖRR for National Geographic; Bolivia’s stylish Flying Cholitas have merged modern wrestling with their community’s history of activism. Noelia, a 19-year-old wrestler, poses for a photograph in her traditional cholita garb. “People need heroes, wrestlers, champions of their own who can be admired,” reflects Brazilian photographer Luisa Dörr, who spent ten days in…
The Paradox of the Women of La Paz
Jada Yuan reports for The New York Times: Place 9 of 52: The Paradox of the Women of La Paz I never imagined that my main takeaway from the Bolivian city, where women have struggled for equality, would be one of female empowerment — thanks to everyone from chefs to wrestlers. Maybe it was oxygen deprivation,…
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