Tag: bull fighting
Colombia bans bullfighting
Colombia’s Congress passed a bill that bans bullfighting in the country. The House of...
Colombia’s mayors may not ban bullfighting: Court
Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that mayors are not allowed to ban bullfights in their cities. In its ruling, the court specified that informal bullfights held outside permanent arenas — like the...
Colombian activists strip naked against bullfighting (video)
Colombian animal rights activists got naked Thursday in an anti-bullfighting protest on Bogota’s central Bolivar square. The dozens of protesters, with their bodies painted red and brown, formed the shape of a bleeding...
Anonymous threatens bullfighting websites (video)
Colombia’s branch of global hacker collective Anonymous released a video Sunday threatening to attack all websites promoting bullfighting. The video, posted on YouTube, depicts the masked character from the movie “V...
$1M restoration for Cartagena’s iconic bull ring
Cartagena’s mayoral office has announced a $1 million restoration of the town’s iconic bull ring, reported daily El Universal Monday. The restoration project for the 1973 structure, considered one of the most...
Medellin’s annual bullfighting festival arrives at La Macarena
Medellin’s annual bullfighting festival opens this weekend in La Macarena, the city’s 14,000 capacity bullfighting ring. A bullfight will take place each Saturday at 4PM in La Macarena over five weeks of the...
Bogota mayor takes stance against bull fighting
Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro has taken a stance against bull fighting in the Colombian capital by stating City Hall will not provide any financial support for bull fighting events, Colombian media reported Friday. “There...
1 dead, 10 wounded in northern Colombia bullfights (video)
One man has been killed and 10 others were seriously injured in a series of corralejas, or popular bullfights, in a town in the north of Colombia. The deadly victim was horned by a bull weighing over 1,322 pounds, who attacked...
