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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 ...
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]
Early color television: Guillermo González Camarena made one of the earliest successful color television transmission systems in 1934. Although not the one used today, NASA used it in 1979 for a series of projects including Voyager 1. AcceleGlove: invented by José Hernández-Rebollar. It is an electronic glove that translates hand movements ...
Arruza retired to a ranch outside Mexico City in 1953, but made a comeback as a rejoneador, fighting bulls from horseback. He appeared in two Mexican films about bullfighting, and had a part in the 1960 John Wayne film The Alamo. He was the subject of the 1971 documentary Arruza, directed by Budd Boetticher.
The event was part of an initiative by the Mexican Association of Bullfighting to attract new followers for the centries-old tradition. ... a town in the State of Mexico near Mexico City, attended ...
The Plaza de toros Nuevo Progreso [1] is a bullring in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. It is currently used for bull fighting and also for hosting musical events, and professional wrestling events. [2] The bullring holds 16,561 people [3] and was built in 1966 to 1967.
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 ...