MEXICO: Hundreds demonstrate in Mexico City calling for an end to bullfighting in Mexico
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303478
MEXICO: Hundreds demonstrate in Mexico City calling for an end to bullfighting in Mexico
- Title: MEXICO: Hundreds demonstrate in Mexico City calling for an end to bullfighting in Mexico
- Date: 6th February 2007
- Summary: PEOPLE BEFORE ENTERING TO BULLRING WIDE BULLRING, PLAZA MEXICO ENTRANCE PAINTING INSIDE THE BULLRING ENTRANCE BULLFIGHTING FANS ENTERING BULLRING WITH BULLFIGHTERS ENTERING CHILDREN WATCHING BULLFIGHTER KILLING BULL
- Embargoed: 21st February 2007 12:00
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- Location: Mexico
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Domestic Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA81LHD9EN5ZLONRHG9Z8IQ5CG
- Story Text: At Mexico City's Plaza Mexico, the world's largest bullring, animal rights activists organized a demonstration against bullfighting on Monday (February 5, 2007).
Hundreds marched a few blocks from the Plaza demanding that bullfighting be banished because they say the bullfights are nothing more than a form of highly stylized torture.
The protest began on the bullring's sixty-first anniversary as thousands of bullfighting fans were entering it to watch one of the year's most talked about bullfights.
"The level of humanity we have as animal lovers is not because we feel pity against these defenseless beings. There is pity for or against these defenseless animals in these places," said the protest organizer Benjamin Garcia Ayala. "To the contrary, the fans and the bullfighter bring out the most primitive instincts in humans and that is why we are against this type of event."
Activists in jeans and white t-shirts handed out pamphlets and shouted anti-bullfighting slogans.
Bullfighting enthusiasts filed into the bullring to watch the fight but didn't pay much attention to the demonstrators.
Organizers expressed their goal of ending Mexico's fondness for bullfighting and asked that others do their part by not going to bullfights and to stop watching them on TV. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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