Mexico City prohibits violent bullfighting in an attempt to maintain tradition, but without bloodshed

Mexico City – On Tuesday, legislators in Mexico voted with a overwhelming majority to ban violent bullfighting, which led to anger from animal rights defenders. The legislation, which was approved by 61-1 voting, prohibits killing bulls and using sharp objects that may lead to animal injury. It also defines time limits on the period that the bulls can take in the ring, all of which are part of an initiative called “bullfighting without violence.”

The decision sparked angry protests from bullfighting supporters and Matters, some of whom tried to violate the police checkpoint in the local Congress. Carry some signs that “being a fan of La Fiesta Brava (bullfighting) is not a crime, it is a pride point.”

However, animal rights activists and legislators who pushed the bill celebrated, however, follow the steps of Congress surrounded by the police into riot equipment, pumping their grip and carrying stuffed bull dolls.

“This was either this or nothing,” said Sofia Morin, an animal rights activist in the organization’s culture without torture. Mexico without bullfight. “We prefer this because, undoubtedly, it’s a big step in protecting animals.”

The mayor of the city of Mexico Clara Brugada of the active ruling Morena party, saying that the decision would turn the Mexican capital into a place “respects the rights of animals.”

Tuesday’s Tuesday’s vote appears to be an attempt to mediate in a compromise between two sides of the debate after years of returning to this practice.

Bulls have always been a tradition and a stove in Spain and many Latin American countries, but they were criticized for the cruelty of animals because the bulls are often killed at the end of the battle. Animal rights groups say nearly 180,000 bulls are killed every year in bullfighting all over the world.

A form of non -bloody gravity has been rooted in California years ago, such as I reported CBS San Francisco In 2021, in this version, Bulls wears the Velcro panel on their backs while participants who wear decorated clothes on horse appearance try to fix the columns on raging animals. Then on foot “Forcados” enter the circuit to try literally to the bull from the centuries, but there is no blood.

The tradition, which has long attracted large crowds to the squares throughout Mexico, has been dealt with a blow when a judge in Mexico was banned this practice in June 2022, and closed a yard described as the largest episode in the world. The judge ruled that the bulls of bulls violated the rights of the city’s residents for a health -free healthy environment.

While animal rights defenders celebrated it as a victory and a step towards ending bloody traditions, the bulls said they dealt with the economic city. The Bulls of Bulls in Mexico says that bullfighting generates 80,000 direct jobs, and 146,000 indirect jobs throughout the country. In general, the industry generates about $ 400 million a year.

This was anxiety for many in the crowd who protested at the end of the violent battles, while others like Juan Pablo Bimentera via loudspeakers, “It is an activity in which the combat bull dies in the bulls. This is its nature … it is a monster.”

In 2023, the Supreme Court of Mexico The ban was canceled without explanationAllow bullfights may be overwhelmed with fans of the so -called “Fiesta Brava”.

On Tuesday, in a speech to the city conference, the Vice -legislator of the Green Party, Jesu Sisma, admitted that the decision would lead to anger of a segment of the city’s residents.

“For those families that are frustrated today, we are here to say that no one has lost his job,” he said. “There was a medium land to continue these polished glasses, but now without violence.”