Bolivia's 'Fight Club'The locals come down out of the mountains drunk, dancing and ready to fight. The police come to make sure no one dies. And the tourists, reporters and documentary filmmakers come to take pictures of the bloodiest face they can find. The outside world has discovered the ancient rite of Tinku, in which indigenous Quechua communities in a remote corner of the Bolivian Andes gather each year to dance, sing and settle old scores in rituralized and often bloody combat. AP's Dan Keane and Juan Karita report from the scene.
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