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Andean women, with long braids and on their backs can carry all kinds of loads -especially to their sons- in multicolored fabrics, they are known as "cholas" and are a spontaneous example of cultural resistance.
Until a few decades ago these women were marginalized and whipped in Bolivia by the ruling classes. To get into the public offices they had to take off their hats and to lower their heads. They could not access, for example, to the hotels or the university and even thinking of occupy any governmental position. Apparently, they were destined only to serve oligarchs and wealthy families. But the cholitas, in spite of the discrimination, resisted and maintained their habits with grace.
In 2006, with greater force, the indigenous woman - like all the original culture - was vindicated. For the first time in history an indigenous, Evo Morales, assumed the presidency of the country. Since then there are cholas ministers, governors, judges, senators and deputies.