Mexico City forbids the violent struggle with bulls in an effort to keep the tradition, but without bloodshed

Mexico City – Members of Mexico City voted on Tuesday for banning violent struggles, causing anger from a lover and celebration of the advocates of animal rights. Legislation, approved by voting 61-1, forbids the killing of bulls and the use of sharp objects that could injure animals. It also sets the time limit on how long the bulls can be in the ring, and all part of the initiative called “the fight against bulls without violence”.

The decision encouraged angry protests from supporters of the fight and Matador, some of whom tried to break the police barricade at a local congress. Some wore inscriptions that wrote “as a fan of La Fiesta lock (fighting for bulls) is not a crime, but pride.”

Animal rights activists and legislators who celebrated the bill, however, go to the steps of a congress surrounded by police in a mess, pumping their fists and wearing stuffed dolls.

“That was either this or nothing,” said Sofía Morín, activist for the protection of animals in organizational culture without torture, Mexico without fighting bulls, which led the initiative to change the law. “We prefer it because, no doubt, there is a huge step in protecting animals.”

Mayor of Mexico City Clara Brugad of the ruling Morena party echoed to activists, saying that the decision would turn the Mexican capital into the place “obeying the animal rights.

The vote on Tuesday seemed to attempt to establish a compromise between the two warring side of the discussion after years back and back.

Bull struggle has long been tradition and fun in Spain and many Latin people, but this has come under criticism for cruelty to animals, because bulls have been often killed at the end of the struggle. Animal protection groups say that around 180,000 bulls are being killed every year in the fight against bulls.

Without the blood of the attraction he was rooted in California years ago, as reported to CBS San Francisco 2021. In this version, Bulls carry a Velcro pad on their backs, while the decorated participants try to attach columns to the rabid animals on a horse. Then “Forcados” walks into the ring on foot to try and literally grab a bull for the horns, but the blood does not spill.

The tradition, which has long attracted large crowds in the arenas across Mexico, inflicted a blow when the Mexico City referee banned practice in June 2022, excluding the Arena charged as the world’s largest ring to fight bulls. The judge ruled that the struggles with bulls were breaking the residents of the city to a healthy environment without violence.

While the advocates of the animal rights celebrated as a victory and a step towards the end of a bloody tradition, Bikovci said that he had an economic blow to the city. The National Association of Breeders of Combat Bulls in Mexico says that the struggle with bulls creates 80,000 direct jobs and 146,000 indirect jobs across the country. Generally, the industry generates about $ 400 million a year.

It was the concern of many in the crowd that protested about the end of violent struggles, while others like Juan Pablo Pabla screaming the megapon “it is an activity where combat bulls die in a bull. It is his nature. … It’s a beast.”

2023, the Supreme Court in Mexico canceled the ban without explanationallowing the Arena to fight against the bulls once again flood with the fans of the so -called “Fiesta lock”.

On Tuesday, in a speech before the City Congress, Green Party MP Jesús Sesma admitted that the decision would anger the segment of the urban population.

“Those families who feel frustrated today, we are here to say that no one lost his job,” he said. “There were middle ground to continue these glasses for fighting, but now without violence.”