WATCH: Women rodeo bull riders buck macho tradition
Thirty-three-year-old Eveling Perez is changing the stereotype of what a bull rider is in Nicaragua.
A bull in a pen waiting to perform in a rodeo. Picure: iStock
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Eveling Perez, 33, became fascinated by bull riding when she was a teenager. But her brother told her the rodeo sport was only for men in Nicaragua, where machismo was and still is the norm. She ignored him and started to practice. Now she regularly rides a bucking bull in rodeo shows.
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