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    Bullfighting in Spain must be stopped!
    The cape crusader is no more in Catalonia. For long the national blood-sport, the Catalanian municipal government has moved to outlaw the gory Sunday Corrida that has aroused passion both for and against it. The decision to proscribe bullfighting will only come into effect by 2012, but detractors of the sport celebrate this body blow to the choreographed estocada de muerte – or death knell – as a victory for animal rights activists that decried a national pastime. Bullfighting in Spain must be stopped! But not all is hunky dory in Catalonia. Many have raised hackles after this latest ban, with some claiming it is merely a riposte by the autonomous region against Spain itself. La Monumental, with its Moorish and Byzantine stylings, was the arena where thousands of bullfighting aficionados thronged to catch a glimpse of  [...]
    Posted at August 6th, 2010 at 07:08 am