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In Spain – along with many countries in Latin America and Asia – women were banned from the sport. They were banned from bullfighting in Spain until 1974, [3] and in Japan until 2018. [4] Women had difficulty completing their alternativa, a ceremony where a bullfighter becomes a matador, during the 1980s due to the social pressures of the ...
Colombia is one of only eight countries where bullfighting still takes place. The others are France, Portugal, Mexico , Ecuador, Peru, Spain and Venezuela, where the controversial sport still ...
Bullfighting originated in the Iberian Peninsula and is still legal in a handful of countries, including Spain, France, Colombia's congress votes to ban bullfights, dealing a blow to the centuries ...
"Cock and bull fighting are legal, Peru's top court rules". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved on 4 June 2020. Portugal: Bullfighting is legal (since 1921), but killing a bull during a fight is illegal (since 1928). Attempts for a nationwide ban have failed several times (most recently in July 2018), while local bans have been declared unconstitutional ...
María de los Ángeles Hernández Gómez was the first woman to earn her bullfighting license (torera) after the ban was lifted. [47] During the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, women were forced to exile in other Spanish-speaking countries and the United States in order to continue bullfighting. [47]
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 ...
From 2009 onwards, several countries outlawed the use of some or all animals in circuses, starting with Bolivia, and followed by several countries in Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East, and Singapore. [130] [123] In 2010, the regional government in Catalonia passed a motion to outlaw bull fighting, the first such ban in Spain. [131]
Pope Francis's weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday was briefly interrupted by two women from an animal rights group, who shouted and held up signs against bullfighting. The women ...