Bogota bullfighters: Stop us killing bulls and we’ll kill ourselves

Bogota bullfighters: Stop us killing bulls and we’ll kill ourselves
Libardo Cardona
Bogota
Monday 18 August 2014

The matadors of Bogota have gone on hunger strike to press their demands that the city council rescind a ban on bullfighting in Colombia’s capital.

Two years ago Bogota’s Mayor suspended bullfights at the capital’s history-steeped bullring but he is also facing a legal challenge.

The two-week-old protest outside the classically styled arena, Plaza Cultural la Santamaria, comes as the country’s Constitutional Court is expected to rule on an attempt to force the Mayor, Gustavo Petro, to allow the blood sport to resume in the city-owned venue.

One of the eight young matadors, weakened from the liquid-only diet, had to be hospitalised last week, said a comrade, 19-year-old Diego Torres. Torres said he and another hunger striker also might need to be hospitalised shortly. But that would not halt the strike, he said.

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bogota-bullfighters-stop-us-killing-bulls-and-well-kill-ourselves-9677006.html

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