The Mexico City Congress he postponed to the debate a rule that could prohibit bullfighting in the capital of one of the countries with the longest bullfighting tradition in the world.
The ban had already been approved this Tuesday in the Animal Welfare Commission of the Capital Congress, but the head of said group, the deputy Jesus Sesma, decided to suspend its debate in plenary session until discussing the initiative with the affected parties.
For this, a series of meetings will be organized with the bullfighting guild and the people who depend on said activity to seek solutions to the economic impact they will receive, said Sesma, from the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), according to a statement from the local Congress.
We are sensitive to the economic situation, but we are also sensitive to what we want: evolution in our Mexico City, which is to avoid any type of mistreatment that leads to the death of some non-human living being, “Sesma added, quoted in the document. .
The initiative proposes to reform the Mexico City Animal Protection Law in order to establish fines of between 2.46 and 4.92 million pesos for those who celebrate bullfights.
Even before the modification, these events, like cockfighting, have been kept exempted from rules that expressly prohibit the killing of animals prolonging their agony or suffering, mutilating them or inciting them to attack each other.
The bullfighting tradition in Mexico It dates back to the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, with the record of the first bullfight in the capital in 1529.
Mexico City is also the headquarters of the Bullring Mexico, inaugurated in 1946, and with a capacity for 42,000 people, being the largest in the world.
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