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Huancayo, Perú. – The organization Huancayo Antibullfighting, head office of the organization Antibullfighting Peru, has called for an antibullfighting demonstration this Friday, the 9th of July at 1:30. The demonstrators will convene at the Youth Hostel at 1:30 P.M, from where they will march to their final destination, the city of Concepcion. (July 2010)
México.- The Mexican Association for the Rights Of Animals, AMEDEA, continues its antibullfighting campaign having hung another poster in the city of Mexico. The billboard, which measures a gigantic 13 X 8 meters, will remain on display for a period of two months and shows a toreador opposite a bull stuck with banderillas and the [...]
Loja, Ecuador.- The city of Loja, situated to the south of Ecuador, declared itself in April an “anti bullfighting city, free of bullfights and other forms of animal maltreatment”. Loja is considered an enclave of the Ecuadoran culture, where many intellectuals of national importance reside, such as Benjamín Carrión, founder of the House of the [...]
México.– On the occasion of the celebration of the month of the child, the “Mexican Antibullfighting Association”, has placed another spectacular advertisement in one of the busiest avenues of the city of Mexico, directed this time to children. The gigantic advertising board, which measures 13 by 7 meters will be displayed in the avenue [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lima, Perú. – The famous Peruvian singer-songwriter Orlando Bellis will be the ‘face’ of the anti- bullfight campaign “Peru united against the bullfights ”, launched to protest against the bullfights organized for the ‘Fiesta del Señor de los Milagros’ (Feast of the Lord of the Miracles), in the Square of Acho.
Orlando Bellis was present [...]
Cajamarca (Peru).- Bullfights continue to inflict harm, wherever one looks. In this case, in addition to the damage inflicted on the bulls, at least 110 people were also injured, 10 of them gravely, after a collapse of crowd control during the 35th anniversary of the bullfighting holiday of Cajamarca, in Peru, as reported the local [...]
Lima (Peru) .- Last October 28th, 2009, a press conference was held in the Congress of the Republic of Peru, which was attended by the legislator José Urquizo Magia and the National Anti bullfighting Organization of Peru. The conference was held to address the expectation of the public to be informed about what actions [...]
