Caceres, April 2012. – Miguel Ibañez, head of Ethology of the Veterinary School of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and a member of the Association of Veterinary Abolitionists of bullfighting, AVAT, gave a lecture to students of Bullfighting in the auditorium of the veterinary faculty of Caceres. He especially emphasised the terrible physical suffering endured [...]
Catalonia, April 23, 2012. – The Catalan Government has authorized the municipality of Aldover, in the province of Tarragona, to organise two bull runs with young bulls and a bull of fire on the occasion of Sant Jordi festivity. This is a cruel way of overshadowing an emblematic Catalan festivity which is well-known around the [...]
Mexico City, April 22, 2012. – 7,000 people demonstrated in Plaza del Zócalo in central Mexico to urge the Federal District Legislative Assembly to ban bullfighting in Mexico City. The anti-bullfighting movement is growing in Mexico and according to a recent survey 70% of Mexicans are against these cruel spectacles. Recently a Committee of the [...]
Madrid. – The MP Josep Pujals Nuet of the ICV-EUiA, has sent to the Spanish government two questions concerning the total annual cost for the Spanish radio and TV channels of programs related to bullfighting, during the period 2007-2011 . The figures are dizzying and shocking: the program “Tendido Zero” reports a total expenditure of [...]
Seville, April 2012. – The large drop in the number of bullfights held in recent years in this town happily reflects a bleak prospect .Many bullrings could not open in 2011, and many of towns did not organize more than two bullfights. Places such as Cantilla, Dos Hermanas, Espartinas and Ecija, to name but a [...]
Mexico City, April 2012. – On April 9 members of the Coalition “No Violence” and legislators of the Green Party of Mexico, PVME, held a press conference at the Legislative Assembly. It addressed, among other issues, the bill that seeks to ban bullfighting in Mexico City. The deputy. Antonio Vega Nava, of the PVEM, released [...]
Madrid, April 2012. – On April 3rd, the Minister of Culture, Education and Sports, José Ignacio Wert, received at the headquarters of the ministry, the board of directors of the Union of Toreros, represented by bull killers Jose Maria Manzanares and El Juli, among others. The bull killers called for an absurd and surreal recognition [...]
Madrid, April 2012. – The current Minister of of Education, Culture and Sport, Jose Ignacio Wert, has announced his intention to develop “national and international measures” to declare bullfights an “intangible heritage”. His Ministry threatens to “participate actively” in these initiatives. This means that the concept of Culture and Education for Mr. Wert is to [...]
March 2012.- the French Antibullfighting Federation, FLAC reported a new trick of the National Observatory of Bullfighting Cultures,ONCT, the standard bearer of the bullfighting lobby in France. Their latest dirty trick is to produce a forged list of psychiatrists (mostly from southern France) who alledgedly signed a statement drafted by the ONCT, which maintains that [...]
Madrid, March 28, 2012. – The Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid, CAM, issued a decree regulating the Culture Awards given annually by CAM in order to incorporate bullfighting to these awards. The prizes are endowed with the not inconsiderable amount of 18,000 euros. In July 2011, responsibility for bullfighting was transferred from the [...]
