Beware the Flying Cholitas!

The newest sensation in the world of Bolivian lucha libre (think "high-flying masked wrestlers in scripted matches") is cholita wrestling (think "young ladies in peasant skirts, bowler hats and shawls). Cholita lucha libre may seem like a contradiction in terms. I assure you it is not, and it is becoming quite popular.

From a National Geographic article on the subject:

Why go?

"It's a distraction." [explains Senora Cancina] "The cholitas fight here and we laugh and forget our troulbes for three or four hours. At home, we're sad."

Would you have liked to be a wrestler too?

Definitely. "Our husbands make fools of us, but if we were wrestlers we could express our fury."

Somewhere in a suburb of La Paz there is a husband that's wearing a frying pan right now, I'm sure of it.