Súper Cholita is a

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character created by Rolando Valdez and Santos Callisaya in 2007. She is the eponymous heroine of a popular comic inspired by local female wrestlers and

Japanese comics Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used ...

, "perhaps ... the best-selling title in the history of Bolivian comics."L'Hoeste, Héctor Fernández. "''Súper Cholita'' and Bolivian Comics: In Search of Cultural and Political Hegemony." Article in the '' International Journal of Comic Art'', v. 15, no. 1, spring 2013, pp. 69–83. Her humorous, ironic adventures are written by Valdez and illustrated by Callisaya and Gladys Castro Mamani.

Character portrayal

Súper Cholita is portrayed as "a folksy incarnation of a female superhero rooted in a combination of Japanese aesthetics, Mexican cultural tradition, and Bolivian politics." Her super powers, including that of flight, emanate from the sacred temple of

Tiwanaku Tiwanaku ( es, Tiahuanaco or ) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia near Lake Titicaca, about 70 kilometers from La Paz, and it is one of the largest sites in South America. Surface remains currently cover around 4 square kilo ...

, and she is costumed in the heavy blanket skirts of the

Altiplano The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao ( Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located a ...

. In her civilian identity, she is the Aymara woman Francisca Pizzaro Mamani, daughter of a ''cholita'' and a nameless ''pepino'' (a traditional carnival clown often deemed responsible for fatherless children), and granddaughter of a mythical highland frog. Her love interest is a policeman. While Súper Cholita uses her powers to help the poor, her behavior is not always as exemplary as that of most superheroes. She has been shown as a boastful, strident complainer, inclined to stuff herself with ''rellenos de papa'', who is not above pilfering from a female potato vendor or bribing a policeman to avoid arrest. She possesses strong views, detesting imperialism and corrupt ''politicos'', criticizing looters, and standing against the autonomy movements threatening Bolivia's unity.

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Súper Cholita

Article in ''La Jornada'' on Súper Cholita
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