Since Thanksgiving is obviously not celebrated in Bolivia I looked for the other fun ways to spend the day. In the morning I had meetings at the center, but I left after lunch to go to the biggest open air market in South America: Mercado 16 de Julio. It is in El Alto so only a few minute from the Center. It is over 5 square kilometers and sells just about anything you can think of: clothes, tires, furniture, make up, DVDs, custom suits. After that I went to Cholita Wrestling. First a little background on these women. The word cholla was a derogatory term for someone of mixed race: Spanish and indigenous. Adding ‘ita’ in this case was to make it smaller. But the term ‘cholita’ has been reclaimed by these indigenous women. Most cholitas
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