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…
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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…
Bolivian Thoughts 