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Second Place
Stephen Ferry
Redux
"Cholita Lucha Libre"
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In the mostly indigenous city of El Alto, Bolivia, a
new sport has sprung up: 'Cholita' freestyle wrestling. Modeled after mexican
Lucha Libre, Cholita wrestling features Aymara women, wearing their
traditional layers of pleated skirts, who are known as Cholitas. In this
sequence, Marisol Kali, a 17-year old newcomer to the sport, loses
consciousness in the ring. But she is undeterred: asked if she would return
to fight after this ordeal, she replied that since she was 8 years old she
wanted to be a professional wrestler, but at the time only men wrestled. She
says she will continue to show that women, and expecially Cholitas, who have
suffered much discrimination in Bolivian society , are 'capable of anything.'
And, besides, she adds, she 'loves it.'
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