INDONESIA: AFRICANS AND PORTUGUESE STAGE FIRST BULLFIGHT.

Record ID: 375868

  • Title: INDONESIA: AFRICANS AND PORTUGUESE STAGE FIRST BULLFIGHT.
  • Date: 28th April 1969
  • Summary: CROWDED STADIUM; MATADORS; PRESIDENT SUHARTO AND MRS. SUHARTO; BULL INTO ARENA; MATADOR AND BULL; BULL KILLED; CROWD INTO ARENA. Initials GS/V/BOB/SC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th May 1969 13:00
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  • Location: DJAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA6WII6FD4YDXQCPHN5T27O7XU1
  • Story Text: THOUSANDS OF INDONESIANS JAMMED INTO DJAKARTA'S SOVIET-BUILT SPORTS STADIUM LAST SATURDAY (APRIL 26) TO WATCH THE COUNTRY'S FIRST BULLFIGHT. EIGHT PORTUGUESE AND AFRICAN MATADORS FACED THE BULLS.

    THE LEADING MATADOR WAS AN AFRICAN, RICARDO CHIBANGA, FROM MOZAMBIQUE, WHO WORE A WHITE AND GOLD COSTUME WITH A RED CAPE. THE PARADE OF THE MATADORS WAS A SIGHT RARE TO SOUTH EAST ASIAN CROWDS AND IT WAS GREETED WITH SHOUTS AND CHEERS. PRESIDENT SUHARTO AND HIS WIFE, WITH THE INDONESIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, ADAM MALIK, WERE OFFICIAL GUESTS.

    TWENTY-FIVE FIGHTING BULLS WERE IMPORTED FROM SPAIN FOR THE CORRIDA, WHICH HAS BEEN TOURING MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE AND HONG KONG. ONLY ONE OF THE BULLS WAS KILLED, BY MATADOR MANUEL SANTOS. SANTOS DROVE HIS SWORD OVER THE BULL'S HORNS TO THE CHEERS OF THE CROWD. AS THE ANIMAL COLLAPSED ON THE SAND, HUNDREDS OF JUBILANT SPECTATORS LEAPT THE FENCE AND RAN TO THE CENTRE OF THE ARENA.
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