In June, 2022, I wrote about a judge extending a ban on bullfighting in Mexico City. Mexico is the largest venue for bullfighting outside of Spain. The administrators of the bullfighting arena, La Plaza Mexico, protested and they called on the fans to protest the …
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A bullfighter lost his nerve when about to get married. Everything had been arranged and about 500 wedding guests had gathered at the church in the city of Jerez, Spain last Saturday when the bullfighter, Juan Ortega telephoned his bride and long-term partner, Carmen Otte …
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NEWS AND COMMENT-MADRID, SPAIN: It is difficult to imagine something more distasteful during today’s woke movement and, in fact, in general than a bullfight for dwarf bullfighters. Although, it has to be said, immediately, that there is an argument to retain it because it provides …
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The Times reports of angry protests at the barbarity of bullfighting which still takes place in towns across south-western France because it is legal to do so on the basis that it is a local tradition despite the fact that a court ruling stated that …
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NEWS AND COMMENT-MEXICO CITY, MEXICO: This might be the beginning of the end of bullfighting in Mexico, where it has been present in Mexico City since the 1520s. Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes apparently watched the first bullfights in the city soon after his 1521 conquest …
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OPINION – COMMENT: It is said that Chinese bullfighting is more humane than Spanish bullfighting because the bulls fight themselves whereas in Spain the bulls are mercilessly killed by a matador. Chinese bullfighting is rooted in a centuries old rural tradition of the Yi people, …
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