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The Parliament of Catalonia decreed a prohibition to bullfighting in the northeast of Spain that will be enforced after January 1rst, 2012. The project of law was known as the Popular Legislative Initiative and was presented by 180 thousand citizens asking the definite suspension of bullfighting in the Catalonia region, an activity that is considered for many as a Hispanic tradition not only in Spain but in most Hispanic American countries like Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela. Ecuador and Peru. The congressmen voted 68 in favor of the prohibition, 55 against and 9 abstentions.
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It wasn’t long before Bertha Trujillo decided she’d taken a fancy to the bull. A senior instructor at Cali’s bullfighting academy in Colombia, Trujillo walked by the breeding pens every day after she finished teaching class, and in one corral roamed the biggest, meanest animal she had ever seen. Even though the bull charged the fence and scuffed the ground in frenzy if anyone dared peek over the gate, she nicknamed him ‘Cariñoso,’ or ‘Sweetie.’
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Marco ‘El Colombiano’ Gomez is one of the most renowned bullfighters Colombia has ever known. The 90-year old spent 55 years of his life in the bull ring. He spent 33 years longing for the woman who left him.
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