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<h2 class="tmglSlideshowTitle"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span>Bolivian men and women in violent harvest festival punch up, in pictures</span></span></h2>
<h2 class="tmglSlideshowTitle"><a href="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03572/bolivia-punch-up-w_3572020k.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto"><img alt="Men and women dressed in colourful clothes take part in the violent ritual - known as The Machu Tinku - in order to please the local Goddess Pachamama so she will allow a fruitful harvest. The fighting takes place in Macha, in the Andes Mountains, Bolivia, and is considered a sacred rite of the Quechua Indians." border="0" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03572/bolivia-punch-up-w_3572020k.jpg" height="399" id="theImage" width="640" /></a><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span> <a name='more'></a></span></span></h2>
<div class="tmglSlideshowTitle"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8632385536254168376" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8632385536254168376" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8632385536254168376" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8632385536254168376" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8632385536254168376" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"></a><span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-weight:normal;"> </span>Thousands of villagers high up in the Bolivian Andes have taken part in a street fight with the aim of &#8216;spilling as much blood as possible&#8217;. Men and women dressed in colourful clothes take part in the violent ritual &#8211; known locally as The Machu Tinku &#8211; in order to please the local Goddess Pachamama so she will allow a fruitful harvest. </span></span></div>
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<div class="tmglSlideshowTitle"><a href="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03572/bolivia-punch-up-m_3572024k.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto"><img alt="Men and women dressed in colourful clothes take part in the violent ritual - known as The Machu Tinku - in order to please the local Goddess Pachamama so she will allow a fruitful harvest. The fighting takes place in Macha, in the Andes Mountains, Bolivia, and is considered a sacred rite of the Quechua Indians." border="0" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03572/bolivia-punch-up-m_3572024k.jpg" height="398" id="theImage" width="640" /></a><span><span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><b class="credit">Photo: Martin Pashley/Solent News</b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<p><span>The fighting takes place in Macha in the Andes and is considered a sacred rite of the Quechua Indians</span></p>
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<p><img alt="Men and women dressed in colourful clothes take part in the violent ritual - known as The Machu Tinku - in order to please the local Goddess Pachamama so she will allow a fruitful harvest. The fighting takes place in Macha, in the Andes Mountains, Bolivia, and is considered a sacred rite of the Quechua Indians." border="0" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03572/bolivia-punch-up-g_3572025k.jpg" height="398" id="theImage" width="640" /><br /><b><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span><span class="credit">Photo: Martin Pashley/Solent News</span></span></span></b><br /><span><br /></span><span>The centuries-old event sees thousands of Quechan, descendants of the Incas, from across the Altiplano region, where one village will circle another before the violence erupts</span></p>
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<p><span>The fight ritusl can be quite brutal and short. No guesses here who got the wrong end of the fist.</span></p>
<p>credit <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/12150440/Bolivian-men-and-women-in-violent-harvest-festival-punch-up-in-pictures.html?frame=3572029" target="_blank">Telegraph</a></p>
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