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  • Jennifer, alias “Two Faces”, helps decorating a friend office for the “Chaya”, an Andean ritual based on watering alcohol and other symbolic elements to the land or any other property, that takes place in the Carnival in La Paz City, February 17, 2012.<br />
SPANISH: Jennifer alias Dos Caras ayuda en la decoración del consultorio de una amiga para la Chaya (ritual andino que se basa en el acto de regar la tierra u otro bien con alcohol y elementos simbólicos) durante el carnaval de la ciudad de La Paz, Bolivia, el 17 de Febrero de 2012.
    Cholitas_Female_Wrestlers_Bolivia_03.jpg
  • Maria Eugenia Herrera Mamani, alias “Claudina the Cursed”, talks with Sarita, alias “The Romantic”, before start the wrestling’s show in a Community Center El Alto. The Cholitas wear the traditional costumes of Aymara people during wrestling shows, Bolivia, February 26, 2012. <br />
SPANISH: Maria Eugenia Herrera Mamani alias Claudina La Maldita  talks to Sarita alias La Romantica before starting the wrestling’s show in a Community Center El Alto. The Cholitas when go into the ring to wrestle wear the traditional costumes of Aymara people, El Alto, Bolivia, February 26, 2012.
    Cholitas_Female_Wrestlers_Bolivia_14.jpg
  • "Cholitas Luchadoras" Fotodiario Rodrigo Cruz, National Geographic en Español, Mexico, Octubre 2013. Photographs by Rodrigo Cruz.
    NGM_Fotodiario_Rodrigo_Cruz_04.jpg
  • "Cholitas Luchadoras" Fotodiario Rodrigo Cruz, National Geographic en Español, Mexico, Octubre 2013. Photographs by Rodrigo Cruz.
    NGM_Fotodiario_Rodrigo_Cruz_03.jpg
  • "Cholitas Luchadoras" Fotodiario Rodrigo Cruz, National Geographic en Español, Mexico, Octubre 2013. Photographs by Rodrigo Cruz.
    NGM_Fotodiario_Rodrigo_Cruz_02.jpg
  • "Cholitas Luchadoras" Fotodiario Rodrigo Cruz, National Geographic en Español, Mexico, Octubre 2013. Photographs by Rodrigo Cruz.
    NGM_Fotodiario_Rodrigo_Cruz_01.jpg
  • Caption: Every Sunday the audience applauds and supports its favorite wrestlers in the wrestling show in a Community Center in El Alto, El Alto, Bolivia, February 26, 2012.<br />
SPANISH: El publico aplaude y apoya a sus luchadores favoritos en el espectaculo de lucha libre que se lleva a cabo cada domingo en el Multifuncional El Alto, en El Alto, Bolivia, el 26 de Febrero de 2012.
    Cholitas_Female_Wrestlers_Bolivia_08.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_20.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, during the annual party known as the Muxe Candle in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_13.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_08.jpg
  • Muxes during the celebration of the vela Muxe. The velas are celebrations that take place in the region of the Itsmo of Tehuantepec, in the state of Oaxaca, where they eat, drink and dance.<br />
<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_01.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, and her mother Ofelia Linares Sanchéz, 49, in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_15.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_04.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_19.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_25.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, during a mass in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_23.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_22.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_17.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, and her mother Ofelia Linares Sanchéz, 49, in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_16.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_14.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, during the annual party known as the Muxe Candle in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_10.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_03.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_12.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_11.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, during the annual party known as the Muxe Candle in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_09.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_02.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_24.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_21.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_18.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_07.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_06.jpg
  • Most women have fought at some time in their life and this starts as children.<br />
<br />
In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
    Ask-for-Rain-Ritual_Rodrigo-Cruz_11.jpg
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