# Super Cholita

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**Súper Cholita** is a [Bolivian](/source/Bolivia) [comic book](/source/Comic_book) character created by [Rolando Valdez](/source/Rolando_Valdez) and [Santos Callisaya](/source/Santos_Callisaya) in 2007. She is the eponymous heroine of a popular comic inspired by local female wrestlers and [Japanese comics](/source/Manga), "perhaps ... the best-selling title in the history of Bolivian comics."[1] Her humorous, ironic adventures are written by Valdez and illustrated by Callisaya and [Gladys Castro Mamani](/source/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."[1] Her super powers, including that of flight, emanate from the sacred temple of [Tiwanaku](/source/Tiwanaku), and she is costumed in the heavy blanket skirts of the [Altiplano](/source/Altiplano). In her civilian identity, she is the [Aymara](/source/Aymara_people) 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.

## Notes

1. L'Hoeste, Héctor Fernández. "*Súper Cholita* and Bolivian Comics: In Search of Cultural and Political Hegemony." Article in the *[International Journal of Comic Art](/source/International_Journal_of_Comic_Art)*, v. 15, no. 1, spring 2013, pp. 69–83.

## External links

- [Súper Cholita](http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2008/05/17/index.php) (in Spanish)
- [Article in *La Jornada* on Súper Cholita](http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2008/05/17/index.php?section=espectaculos&article=a08n1esp) (in Spanish)

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