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Bullfighting has been banned in 5 of the 31 states of Mexico: Sonora in 2013, Guerrero in 2014, Coahuila in 2015, [139] Quintana Roo in 2019, [140] and Sinaloa in 2022. [141] It was also banned "indefinitely" in Mexico City in 2022, [142] but resumed on 29 January 2024 after a series of legal challenges. [143]
Bullfighting arrived in Mexico with the first Spaniards. Records are found of the first bullfights debuted in Mexico on June 26, 1526, with a bullfight in Mexico City held in honor of explorer Hernán Cortés, who had just come back from Honduras (then known as Las Hibueras). From that point on, bullfights were staged all over Mexico as part of ...
The following table is a list of the 31 federal states of Mexico plus Mexico City, ranked in order of their total population based on data from the last three National Population Census in 2020, 2010 and 2000.
With protesters outside a full arena, bullfights resumed in Mexico City on Sunday after the country’s highest court temporarily revoked a local ruling that sided with animal rights defenders and ...
Days after the final bullfight, and after more than 122 years of functioning as a bullfighting venue, the authorities of the State of Jalisco commissioned architect Ignacio Díaz Morales [2] to demolish the bullring and many buildings and houses in downtown Guadalajara, in an area of 8.64 acres or 376,737 square feet (35,000 square meters), to make way for the construction of Plaza Tapatía ...
Mexico's capital held its first bullfight in almost two years on Sunday, after the Supreme Court paved the way for the spectacle's return in December. Bullfights have been held in Mexico since the ...
Arruza was born in Mexico to Spanish parents. He began fighting bulls at age 14 in Mexico City, and moved to Spain in 1944. He and Manolete were Spain's top matadors of the 1940s. Arruza retired to a ranch outside Mexico City in 1953, but made a comeback as a rejoneador, fighting bulls from horseback.
Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a 2022 ban on bullfighting in Mexico City, opening the way for events to resume. A panel of five justices voted to overturn a May 2022 injunction ...