The corral gate swings open and an energetic calf charges in, only to be wrestled stuggling to the ground and immobilized by having its legs tied. It happened in one of the sessions of a workshop that José Arturo Jiménez gave this past week at his ranch in Aculco, a town in the State of Mexico near Mexico City, attended by about 40 university students and others. The event was part of an initiative by the Mexican Association of Bullfighting to attract new followers for the centries-old tradition of bullfighting by educating young people about the different activities that surround the breeding of fighting bulls.
Days after Mexico’s Supreme Court lifted a suspension on bullfights in the world’s largest bullring, a young bullfighter practiced his steps and waved his cape in front of a bull’s head mounted on a wheeled cart. The court’s decision raised the hopes of thousands of fans, but also those who depend on the spectacle for their livelihoods. Mexico City’s Plaza Mexico is considered the cathedral of Mexican bullfighting and is one of the world s three main bullrings along with Las Ventas in Madrid and La Maestranza in the Spain s city of Seville. The expected return of the controversial sport is agitating animal rights activists who say bullfighting is a form of animal cruelty.
Days after Mexico’s Supreme Court lifted a suspension on bullfights in the world’s largest bullring, a young bullfighter practiced his steps and waved his cape in front of a bull’s head mounted on a wheeled cart. The court’s decision raised the hopes of thousands of fans, but also those who depend on the spectacle for their livelihoods. Mexico City’s Plaza Mexico is considered the cathedral of Mexican bullfighting and is one of the world s three main bullrings along with Las Ventas in Madrid and La Maestranza in the Spain s city of Seville. The expected return of the controversial sport is agitating animal rights activists who say bullfighting is a form of animal cruelty.
Days after Mexico’s Supreme Court lifted a suspension on bullfights in the world’s largest bullring, a young bullfighter practiced his steps and waved his cape in front of a bull’s head mounted on a wheeled cart. The court’s decision raised the hopes of thousands of fans, but also those who depend on the spectacle for their livelihoods. Mexico City’s Plaza Mexico is considered the cathedral of Mexican bullfighting and is one of the world s three main bullrings along with Las Ventas in Madrid and La Maestranza in the Spain s city of Seville. The expected return of the controversial sport is agitating animal rights activists who say bullfighting is a form of animal cruelty.
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