Las Amazonas de Yaxunah are girls warriors of Mexican softball
Shoeless and sporting conventional Maya clothes often called huipiles, the softball group Las Amazonas de Yaxunah is smashing old school machismo stereotypes about girls competing in sports activities. Not too long ago topped champions of the Yaxcabá quadrangular match, the group defeated the hosts, Las Bravas, 7-4 after a spirited effort produced an epic comeback from 4 runs down. It was the most recent victory to propel them in direction of nationwide stardom – however it wasn’t so way back that they had been criticized for enjoying sports activities in any respect, which was thought-about the dominion of males. At 54 years previous, María remains to be one of many large hitters of Las Amazonas. (Picture courtesy of Mark Viales) The group of Indigenous softball gamers are from Yaxunah, Yucatán,…
