The case against bullfighting seems straightforward. What justification could there be for the obviously painful and bloody public execution of an animal in front of a cheering multitude? In fact, the ...

James Wagner, who covers Latin America for The New York Times, recently reported on a clash over a centuries-old tradition in Mexico City. By James Wagner Times Insider explains who we are and what we ...

MEXICO CITY — 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 rights ...

Two bulls, each weighing over 1,300 pounds, ram heads and jab horns as their muscles ripple under velvety coats. They’re fighting in a sand pit at the center of a stadium as a crowd cheers them on.

In the hands of great filmmakers, a documentary can render something that your sensibilities might willfully ignore — even condemn. Such is the rub you may find yourself in with iconoclastic Spanish ...

Bullfighting in Mexico City faced a ban in June 2022, but the Supreme Court of Justice has officially overturned it. Animal rights activists had filed a legal complaint against bullfighting, citing ...

Mexico City’s local congress on Tuesday passed a measure aiming to make bullfights much less harmful to bulls and matadors, a move applauded by animal rights activists but sharply criticized by fans ...

ACULCO, Mexico (AP) — The corral gate swings open and an energetic calf charges in, only to be wrestled stuggling to the ground and immobilized by having its legs tied. The men go to work vaccinating ...

Spain’s leading matador “stunned the bullfighting world” last week by “symbolically cutting off his ponytail in the ring”, said The Times. The gesture by Morante de la Puebla in Madrid’s Las Ventas, ...

Iron Mike, Punchy and the rest of the gang back at Stillman’s Gym will never believe it, but Willie the Weep McGinnity has become a bullfighting fan. It is only a month or so since Myra, Willie’s old ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEXICO CITY (AP) — With protesters outside a ...