Saturday, October 25, 2008

Today’s Video: Wrestling, “cholita” style

In May, we briefly talked about Bolivia’s cholita wresters who are female grapplers dressed in traditional clothes and who “fight” in weekly bouts against men. Trans World Sport recently covered the increasingly popular trend and how the wrestlers represent the “changing role of women in Bolivian society”.

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Sources- The Latin Americanist, YouTube

1 comment:

Unknown said...

It's good to see that girls are really getting stronger and are competing in all the professions that are solely thought to be made for men, thanks for sharing the Video, really nice one.