Pressure mounts to ban bullfights in Spain's Catalonia
By Sinikka Tarvainen, Monsters and Critics
Admirers of bullfighting see it as one of Spain’s most powerful cultural expressions – the only art in which the artist risks his life, as the late US writer Ernest Hemingway put it.
Increasing numbers of Spaniards, however, see the country’s ‘national spectacle’ in a different light – as a cruel bloodsport in which a tortured animal is given no chance to defeat its opponent.
Opposition to bullfighting is mounting especially in north-eastern Catalonia, which could become Spain’s first region to ban corridas, anti-bullfighting campaigner Eric Gallego told the German Press Agency dpa in a telephone interview.
Gallego is spokesman for Prou, a platform which has collected 180,000 signatures in a bid to outlaw bullfights and many of the related bull spectacles in the wealthy region of about 7 million residents.
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