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| Colombia bullfighters face unemployment |
| 2024-05-31 |
| [Al Jazeera] Colombia’s Congress has passed legislation banning bullfighting. Lawmakers passed the bill 93-2 on Tuesday. Activists have spent many years seeking to prohibit the controversial blood sport, which is a centuries-old colonial tradition in the country. The ban will be phased in over a three-year period, during which the state would be required to help find alternative employment options for the tens of thousands of people directly or indirectly dependent on the sector. Reporting from Bogota, Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti said the bill had been greenlighted after "years of strenuous political battles". The once popular tradition, introduced by Spanish colonisers, had been "losing fans in recent years" and had turned into a "pastime for a small elite", he said. Juan Carlos Losada, a politician with the Liberal Party, told Al Jazeera that the ban would enable the country to re-evaluate the "culture of violence" it had inherited. "The next generations will grow up in a country where culture will define things much more creatively than torturing animals for the amusement of a few insensitive people," he said. Related: Bullfighting 08/28/2017 Bull wounds anti-bullfighting activist in French arena Bullfighting 07/11/2016 Spanish bullfighter gored to death on live TV Bullfighting 08/30/2015 Obit - Famous WW-II 10th Mountain Artist - Gino Hollander Related: Colombia: 2024-05-27 Haitian national who came to US with Biden 'parole' program indicted for child rape in Massachusetts Colombia: 2024-05-25 FM forbids Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from serving West Bank Palestinians Colombia: 2024-05-17 Ibu volcano in Indonesia threw ash to a height of at least 5 km |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Very good, very...um, socialist. It's worth remembering that there was a time when the Bull was worshiped around the Mediterranean. 'Coincidentally', when there was a Sacred Bull in Memphis, men built the pyramids with heuristics and their bare hands. Ditto the Minoan bull dancers and what was created on Crete. You may not want to watch it, or extend yourself to understand it. But somewhere in all those ruffled feathers it might be a valid question to consider just how many men you've ever met willing to face a Saltillo bull with a relatively flimsy sword. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2024-05-31 14:21 |
| #3 No swords in MMA, yet. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-05-31 12:47 |
| #2 MMA fighting is OK though. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-05-31 11:09 |
| #1 There's always the Coca fields. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-05-31 10:02 |