Excerpt pertaining Bolivia follow from Telegram.com: By Colleen Barry, The Associated Press MILAN — Milan designers are breathing fresh air into Milan Fashion Week, quite literally. Many fashion houses are showing their collections outdoors this season, or at least throwing open the windows on their grand palazzi venues, betting on Mother Nature with open-air shows….
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Reach Great Heights When Visiting La Paz, Bolivia
Udaipur Kiran reports: Reach Great Heights When Visiting La Paz, Bolivia South America is a continent which is a stunning mixture of the old and the new. There are so many wonderful things to see and experience in this bold and timeless land that the erstwhile traveler may feel a bit lost. Lucky for you…
Meet the Cholita Wrestlers Beating Down the Patriarchy in Bolivia
Lauren Evans writes in Broadly: Meet the Cholita Wrestlers Beating Down the Patriarchy in Bolivia Cholitas, the indigenous women of Bolivia, are pile-driving their way into the previously male-dominated sport of wrestling, skirts and all. It’s Sunday afternoon in El Alto, Bolivia, and sun is streaming through the grit-streaked windows of the city’s Multifunctional Center….
The female wrestlers of Bolivia
BBC – Culture reports: The female wrestlers of Bolivia By Fiona Macdonald Skirting the issue 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…
Bolivian Carmen Rosa: The fearless cholita wrestler
From Sounds and Colors: CARMEN ROSA: THE FEARLESS CHOLITA WRESTLER By Ellen Gordon: The indigenous Aymara people have been discriminated against since colonial times and make up the second largest ethnic group In Bolivia. The Aymara’s knowledge of the land, ability to adapt to modernisation, and extensive trading networks have ensured their survival even when…
In the wrestling rings of Bolivia, skirts fly as cholitas fight back!
From National Geographic: Bolivia’s Wrestlers In the wrestling rings of Bolivia, skirts fly as cholitas fight back! By Alma Guillermoprieto Photograph by Ivan Kashinsky At the largest public gymnasium in El Alto, Bolivia, daylight is fading from the windows, and hundreds of people along the bleachers are growing impatient. They have been sitting for more…
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