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Madrid, March 2011.-First it was the Congress and now the Senate who have admitted a step toward a Popular Legislative Initiative as presented by the Federation of Bullfighting Entities of Catalonia. The intention of the federation is to gather 500,000 signatures to strengthen the situation of the bullfights in the whole Spain, and to declare [...]
March 2011.-On September 12, 2009, during a bullfighting celebration in Arcas de Villar (Cuenca – Comunidad de Castilla-La Mancha), some participants tied three steers with a rope and made repeated unsucessful attempts to kill them. They did not finish them because they failed to deliver the killing blow with a knife to the neck to [...]
Madrid, March 2011.-Although she has stated that it is not a priority for his Department, the Minister of Culture Angeles González-Sinde has taken the step of asking for a reduced rate of VAT to be applied to bullfights. The reduced rate of 8% reduced from the standard rate of 18% is, according to VAT law, [...]
A special relationship began nine years ago, when José Luis fed an apple to Capitán (Captain), who is a 700 kilo bull and one of the bravest of the running of the bulls of La Ribera (Navarre) where he attacks everything that is presented before him, with the exception of his friend José Luis. As [...]
Murcia, February of 2011.-Ecologists in Action and the group Antibullfighting-Cartagena have strongly criticized a decision of the Government of Murcia to declare the bullfight Events of Cultural Interest. They affirm that “ it is an insult that the Regional Government speaks of promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity ” yet supports the violent [...]
Mexico (Febrary 2011).- Humane Society International (HSI) and AMEDEA-MANT have begun collecting signatures to be sent to the Mayor of Mexico City , as well as local legislators to seek a PERMANENT BAN ON BULLFIGHTING IN MÉXICO CITY. Link to access HSI petition in English: https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4813 Spread the word and sign the petition. Thank you [...]
The Association Alliance anti-corrida (Anti bullfight Alliance), alerted by the parents of pupils at an institute of Nîmes, had to intervene when the Spanish teacher proposed to invite to the school a representative of the Museum of Bullfighting Cultures. His proposal was sparked when children of the 6th year (11 years of age) said that [...]
The head of the company that runs the Nimes bullring, Simon Casas, has admitted that his proposed project to organize a bullfighting festival in Abu Dhabi has not managed to convince his prospective customers and that the negotiations with the son of the emir of Abu Dhabi are in deadlock
Much as it hurts French Bullfight supporters to recognise it, statistics show that bullfights have been in permanent decline in France since 2003. Between 2003 and 2010, the number of cities where bullfights are held has gone from 50 to 49 and the number of festivals, from 174 to 130. This regression began in 2004 [...]
Madrid. – The Federation of Bullfighting Entities of Catalonia has officially begun the process to put together an ILP (Popular Initiative) with the intention of requesting, that the bullfighting festivals be declared events of cultural interest by the Congress of Deputies in Spain. They also include in their proposal that persons younger than fourteen be [...]
