Coronavirus epidemic could deal mortal blow to Spain's struggling bullfighting world

MADRID - Usually at this time of year Madrid’s Las Ventas bullring is packed as matadors take on lethal half-tonne bulls in daily fights during the annual San Isidro festival.

The shut-down could deal a fatal blow to a controversial spectacle which poet Federico Garcia Lorca once called “the last serious thing”. Local governments have cut funding for fiestas, left-wing politicians oppose it, and a highly vocal anti-bullfight movement has grabbed headlines.Although Spain has started to ease its coronavirus lockdown, it is not clear if any corridas will now take place before the end of the season in October.

FILE PHOTO: Spanish bullfighter Octavio Chacon performs a pass to a bull during the last bullfight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, July 14, 2019. REUTERS/Susana Vera/File Photo Activists have staged regular demonstrations outside plazas - sometimes even daubing themselves with fake blood and lying down naked on the ground. For them, it is a cruel and bloody spectacle which has no place in modern Spain.The Union of Breeders estimates the industry’s losses could exceed 77 million euros if the season is written off.

About freaking time! Let them do this to each other if they still choose to cause pain and suffering but leave other living creatures out of this abhorrent abuse!

Mejor.

Good.

Here's hoping, it's a disgrace it's still a thing!

Oh sí oh sí

Fantastic

Good

OJALÁ

A ver si es verdad.

A gory sport. 🤣

🤔🤮🤮🤮🤮

Its not a fight, a fight its supposed to be fair. Its just an animal being tortured to death

Oleee a tomar x culo

Porfavor que esa mierda se termine

Animal cruelty like this must end worldwide.

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Good. Nobody needs that kind of tradition.

Ojalá 🙏

Well that’s one good thing to come out of this pandemic!

SI POR FAVOR!!!

Finally !!

May whatever superior power you believe in hear you and end it, please

It’s about time

*happy spanish noises*

good

Good

Seria maravilloso, ojala.

Thanks God!

YES PLEASE 🤗

About time, as well!

At least one good thing this year for us.

Nice

I’m glad

TOMAAAA

Good

Yaaaaas

Ojalá 🤞🏼 😊

Who knew COVID 19 would bring good things for us as well?

🤦🏻‍♂️

That's some good news.This whole bull s**t bull fighting send shivers down my spine.

Let's celebrate!! 🥳

Good

GOOD

f**k this tradition!! killing animals for fun should be end!

Anybody in Spain considered a fair, 1 on 1, fight between a man and a bull instead of this long, cruel butchery? 🤔

Omg please

Finally

please

I wish

Best news to hear come out of the country,so out of the chaos,comes the positive,

Algo bueno trajo el Covid 19.

_Peich It's so damn funny to see this barbaric thing die by itself.

I hope the redundant bullfighters will be looked after, Maybe there are jobs in meat processing plants going or as they are supposed to be part of the tourist trade they could sell deckchairs or bangles on the beach in Benidorm or something like that!!

Finally

VAMOOOOS

rickygervais

Por favor y gracias 🙏

More savage than controversial

About time too. Barbaric cruelty 🤬

👍👏👏👏👏💐

Unnecessary violence, seems the coliseum in Rome

Wonderful news!

Good.

Good

Let’s hope 🤞

good

Lo dice un guiri que no ha visto a un taurino xd

Good.

Pls pls let this barbaric practice end.

Perhaps stopping bullfighting will bring Spain into the civilized world!!!

Good.

Al fin algo bueno

positivethoughts

Good! Please end it now.

Awww. What a SHAME!

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Eso espero 🙏🏾

ya era hora

Good

Ojalá 🤞🏻

I hope all the people in spain&in the world understand how's the feel of the pain that bull feels Please don't hurt animal for any reason especially for entertainment We all are human,we have feeling to understand&religion We are not wild animal No creature want to be hurt peta

noelpriv13 JAJAJAJA TU CUANDO TU CUANDO ESPAÑOIK RE QL

Bien me parece de puta madre

Stupid, cruel activity anyway.

The best news to come out of the pandemic.

at last some potential good news

great!

Yay

I always hear of these barbaric torturing killings of innocent animals and wonder is this really happening in our times in a European civilized country

Good

Good! Torture is exactly what they do to bulls, in bullfights - they torture them to death.

Good

That's fine. Some traditions, mostly those that involve torturing living beings, need to die out.

I don’t think bulls can get corona.

Good rickygervais

That would be the greatest good that Coronavirus could bring to the world. Bullfighting is a shame. Men killing defenseless animals while a psychopathic crowd cheers and encourages the killer. How can we possibly build a better world by killing defenseless animals for “fun”?

Good.

Finally some good news in bleak times.

I’m always rooting for the bull

Good

Please stop this cruelty show

That’s fine. Nobody will miss this crap. Something good comes out of this horrible situation we are in.

Gee. Real sad about that.

One good thing to come out of this...

Excellent

Thank fuck

Good end it.

Good.

As it should be.

Most people here in Spain want this to end, but is not easy. Is about fucking time, is a shame.

You’re a hypocrite if you say this is bad but you buy products from factory farms.

Awesome news!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳

Good.

One good thing to come out of this pandemic.

GOOD. This senseless violence should’ve been over so long ago.

Good

good riddance

Glad to hear it

Good fucking riddance.

A positive.

Olé!! I hope next will be Portugal

It’s like hogs, they have to be sent to the slaughter house at a certain weight. These bulls have to be tortured with darts and then skewered with a sword before they too get to a certain age.

Now Spain, soon Portugal. Let's hope so!!

Genial!

Good

I'm like Picasso.. It is a rush to see the 'Matador' been caught by horns.

Best news I've heard today. 👏👏👏

What a pity. Let me summon a 🐊 for some tears.

Some good news for once

недоразвитые

A shameful practice of torturing bulls should have no place in any tradition.

It’s about time..

We all hope that ‘could’ becomes ‘will’ 🙏

SOFB

Root for the bulls. It's about time.

Let it end. A tradition so cruel, unfair and violent. Only sadistic twats will miss it!

Finally !

Good riddance to bullfighting. Horrible animal cruelty

YES. PLEASE YES.

Not all related to Covid-19 is bad.

Every cloud has a silver lining as they say.

Mad that a civilised society still allows these bloodsports. We banned bear baiting and cock fighting centuries ago...

About time.

Perfecto. Maravilloso. Excelente.

Yes, go away!

Good!

Excellent.

Finally!

We have ‘bull slinging’ as our national pastime

Hallelujah!!

One good thing to come out of this

good riddance it should be banned! This is cruelty to bulls something good may yet come out from Coronavirus! No more bullfighting yeeeee

This is wonderful news!

What they do to those bulls is horrific. Absolute animal cruelty. Do not support this 'tradition.'

Good.

Just a few old fashioned spanish people will dislike this post.

💩Excellent News 👌🇦🇺

Nope. Cruelty as entertainment. I always root for the bull.

Well, I would rejoice to see the end of it.

Let it die... its disgusting...

I hope it ends soon! Now we have UFC. It's much more civilized. 😆

Best news of the day, this cruel, barbaric spectacle should be completely banned 👎🏻🤬

Shut it down

Good

Good!

💃

At least something in the world is actually right

It's rigged with the poor bull having it's horns shaved which is painful to touch..

Silver linings

I hope it bankrupt

Good

Hope it never comes back

Barbaric

Maybe this is a sign...

Bullfighting is archaic and dumb.

Animal cruelty. Get rid of it.

silver linings

Bet a lot of bulls are breathing a sigh of relief

I always cheer for the bull!

Good.

Very nice game in human history.

Good news

Good, I should imagine the bulls are enjoying their survival. Maybe it’s time for a change. The world has survived without bull fighting, as have the bulls. So stop it now

Aw shame

Como todo ahora las ganaderías enfrentan el cierre por el virus y después de esa batalla seguirán por librar la de saber si deben o no continuar con la fiesta brava. Interesante tema.

perfect time to shut it the heck down

Good, ban it

And the bulls are grateful

Good

Good

Un toro de lidia no tiene otro uso y vive bien como ningún otro. Hay más de 600 ganaderías en España y más de 200 en México. Tema polémico para analizar.

Perhaps this is the only performance in the world where the audience gets pleasure from the pouring of real blood

Good it's barbaric....

Oh that’s a shame. I’m going to send a donation of zero to help those poor cruel murderers out.

Yes. That’s made my day. What a cruel sport.

It should have been forbiden a long time ago!

Finally. Some good news.

Time to end it, show re-runs on Netflix.

Good

It’s barbaric and should be condemned

Yay endBullfighting

shame and fuck those guys!

Good.

davidbewart Good. It’s stupid, cowardly and cruel.

That's even better then.

Good. It’s time to retire this

Hopefully it will end once and for all.

It's not 'controversial'.. it's cruel &brutal

good.

👏🙌👏🙌

Went to my first and last bullfight in Seville. Not sure that this happens much in bullfighting, but the bull tossed the matador over the ring barrier. My brother and I cheered TORO! TORO! and were heckled by the locals. Said matador did not return...

Vous inquiéter pas, ça survivra 🇪🇸

Best news I've heard all day.

Big fucking deal.........let it die

Shut that barbaric BS down already

It should cease and desist for ever

Good

You know who's also struggling for survival amid lockdown...?

The natural world is winning.

👏🏻

This business should be terminated, YES!

Good!!!

Excellent news!

Wall street story, to the extreme then it's done.

Good.

Good. Barbarism should be banned.

Great news

Good.

Best news of the day!

Good

I know this is tradition but it's brutal and just as barbaric as wet markets in Asia.

Stop being pussys then and live your life

Excellent.

Good.

Good.

Is this a bad thing ? bullfighting

Glad to hear that.

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