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Rodolfo Gaona y Jiménez (22 January 1888 – 20 May 1975), was a Mexican bullfighter who performed from 1905 until his retirement in 1925, primarily in Madrid. [1] [2] [3] Known as El Indio Grande (The Big Indian) and La Califa de León (The Caliph of León), Gaona was part of the Golden Age of bullfighting in Spain [3] alongside Juan Belmonte and Joselito. [4]
Pérez began his career in 1931, after his brother, Carmelo Pérez, was gored during a bullfight in Mexico by a bull named "Michin" from the ganaderia San Diego de los Padres He died weeks later in Spain as a consequence of that wound. Pérez died at his ranch in Pentecostes, east of Mexico City, of pneumonia.
After years of studying, he moved to Mexico to perform in bullfights, as Spain required novilleros (junior matador) to be of at least 16 years of age. On March 16, 1997, at the age of 14, López Escobar made his bullfighting debut in Texcoco, Mexico. He finished with a standing ovation and received two bulls' ears.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — 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 ...
Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega (Spanish: [xoaˈkin roðˈɾiɣeθ oɾˈteɣa]; 17 February 1903 – 1 January 1984), [4] professionally known as Cagancho (Spanish: [kaˈɣantʃo]), was a Spanish bullfighter much of whose career was spent in Mexico, although he did sometimes perform in his native Spain, and one of his performances there, in Almagro, Ciudad Real in 1927 even gave rise to a now well ...
Animal rights defenders in Mexico City on Sunday marched to protest the return of the centuries-old spectacle of bullfighting to the capital after almost two years. "Torture is not art, it is not ...
Bullfighting is a long standing Spanish tradition that began in the pre-historic times. Although it is controversial and even banned in parts of the country, bullfighting continues to be a strong ...
A bullfighter (or matador) is a performer in the activity of bullfighting. Torero (Spanish:) or toureiro (Portuguese: [toˈɾɐjɾu]), both from Latin taurarius, are the Spanish and Portuguese words for bullfighter, and describe all the performers in the activity of bullfighting as practised in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, France, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and other countries influenced ...