Wrestle
33 images Created 19 Nov 2008
Cristian Lombardi was a truck driver, a soldier and gravedigger until he became a professional photographer. He got to Bolivia 10 years ago from France, his homeland, and here he stayed seduced by "a chaotic and irrational atmosphere."
He just finished a striking work on Bolivian catch. This sport-show peaked in times of Victor Peace Estensoro, the Bolivian president who nationalized mines and oil in 1952. Disguised as primitive men, skeletons or mummies the first "titans of the ring" roamed the mines blowing each other over makeshift stages. In those times the mines were full of workers with some money to spend in shows. Thousands cheered weekly Jimmy London , the glory of Bolivian catch who spread victorious blows across Latin America
But things has changed. Privatizations came with massive unemployment and widespread poverty. Modernization also brought audiovisual entertainments such as television and videogames. The catch got into decay but, even against the ropes, so far eludes the knock out.
It is no longer the gorgeous show it use to be. Anyhow, every Sunday in a dusty gym of El Alto city Ana the Avenger, Juana the Pacena, the Aztec thunder, the Red Baron and Insanity fight with brave courage.
The conflicts of the Bolivian society are over the ring as well: "the skirts" (cholas of aymara roots) punish the "dress ones" for people's delight. Indians are ovationated when hiting "whites". And the rich ones...there are not rich people in El Alto, the poorest city of Bolivia
He just finished a striking work on Bolivian catch. This sport-show peaked in times of Victor Peace Estensoro, the Bolivian president who nationalized mines and oil in 1952. Disguised as primitive men, skeletons or mummies the first "titans of the ring" roamed the mines blowing each other over makeshift stages. In those times the mines were full of workers with some money to spend in shows. Thousands cheered weekly Jimmy London , the glory of Bolivian catch who spread victorious blows across Latin America
But things has changed. Privatizations came with massive unemployment and widespread poverty. Modernization also brought audiovisual entertainments such as television and videogames. The catch got into decay but, even against the ropes, so far eludes the knock out.
It is no longer the gorgeous show it use to be. Anyhow, every Sunday in a dusty gym of El Alto city Ana the Avenger, Juana the Pacena, the Aztec thunder, the Red Baron and Insanity fight with brave courage.
The conflicts of the Bolivian society are over the ring as well: "the skirts" (cholas of aymara roots) punish the "dress ones" for people's delight. Indians are ovationated when hiting "whites". And the rich ones...there are not rich people in El Alto, the poorest city of Bolivia
