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  • A soccer player of Toros Neza team into the locker room after finishing the training. Toros Neza team is a professional soccer team that plays in the first division of Mexican soccer in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 30, 2011.
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  • Maria Eugenia Mamani Herrera, alias “Claudina the Cursed”, dressed like Cholita, calls by phone while goes to the Community Center El Alto to participate in a wrestling show in La Paz, Bolivia, February 26, 2012.
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  • Around the fights, other girls take photos and video with their cell phones.<br />
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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_06.jpg
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