Summary. – The whole ritual of the bullfighting has just one identical obsessive purpose: to pierce the body of the bull and to fill his body of wounds and holes; the more the better. The torture begins when the infant animal is just a few months of age: to prepare it for what is to [...]
Jerez, Andalucía. – The bullfighting world has been rocked by the scandal of the detention last Thursday, the 17th, of the bull killer Juan Pedro Galán, in Jerez when it came to light that the organization managed by supposed lady´s man Galan together with others of his family in Cadiz and Malaga employs some 150 [...]
México. – The Colombian Álvaro Munera was initiated as a child in the practice of the bullfighting. In his house there was no other subject of conversation and, from the age of four, his father often took the small Álvaro to see bullfights. Having grown up in this atmosphere, Munera decided, at the [...]
Madrid. – Spanish TVE broadcast last Sunday, within the cartoon series ‘Vipo´, a program for small children, a scene that includes a clear anti-bullfighting message. The scene takes place when a stork explains to Vippo (a dog character) what a bullfight consists of. He tells him that: “Bullfights are not fair. They [...]
México. – The organization AMEDEA has placed a gigantic advertisement against bullfights in one of the busiest avenues of Mexico City, ‘Insurgents y en Monterrey’. The poster, which measures 13 by 7 meters, shows an empty bullring with a tortured bull and the following message: ‘Let’s change the squares of [...]
Mexico – Last January 31 in the Cali bullring, one of the children who was taking part in a ‘novillada’, (a training fight with young bulls), was injured after receiving a blow from a horn. Following this the Federation of the Committees of Animal Liberation has deposited a denunciation before the Ministry to bring [...]
Barcelona. – Whilst the proposal to change the law to prohibit bullfighting in the region is still under debate in the Catalan Parliament, the deputies of the PSC(socialistic), PP (popularist) and ERC (leftists) have all voted in favor of a proposition of Law to protect the ‘correbous’ a holiday event that includes bulls. The CIU [...]
Spain. – The association ‘Irish Council Against Blood Sports’, (ICABS), has succeeded in persuading the biggest travel agency in Ireland to withdraw the image of a bullfighter from their advertisements for holidays to Spain. The agency operates in 30 countries, including Spain. In addition, the head of the agency has assured the ICABS, that in [...]
Nimes, France. – Last October, during the celebration of the Congress of the Federation of Bullfighting Societies, one again the decline of bullfighting in Nimes was demonstrated. According to the President of the Federation, the majority of the bullfights are staged only for the few tourists who only attend because it is a novelty and [...]
France. – The French magazine “Bulls”, admits that the bullfight is not popular, and that it has been replaced with other more attractive spectacles. According to the article, which appeared in December 2009, the trend is confirmed also of the loss of support also for bullfights in Spain, 2009 saw a reduction of [...]
