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The First Committee of the Chamber revived this Monday a controversial issue that has divided Colombians in recent years: the prohibition of bullfighting.
The initiative that prohibits this practice was approved by this legislative cell in its first of four debates. However, the discussion was fraught with controversy because for some bullfighting is seen as a tradition and for others as an act that violates the rights of animals.
In dialogue with EL TIEMPO, the Liberal party congressman Juan Carlos Losada, author of the project, assured that the initiative contemplates a “labor reconversion of all those people who will be affected by the ban.”
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Why ban bullfighting? What about practices like corralejas or coleo?
It is absolutely necessary to prohibit bullfighting practices in our country, they are violent practices against animals. They are despicable practices that our society cannot accept, the new generations of Colombians hold animals in high esteem and that is why it is necessary to prohibit bullfighting.
However, the animalistic fight has understood that the changes are made gradually and progressively, that is why we have started with bullfights and then we will see if society is prepared to take other steps such as the prohibition of corralejas and fights of roosters.
Why not contemplate that bullfights take place, but without the death of the bull, as some propose?
Science has shown that bloodless bullfights do not exist, because animal abuse is not only physical but also psychological. All the studies that have been done on the degrees of stress suffered by the bull during bullfights have shown that they also constitute animal abuse.
Science has shown that bloodless bullfights do not exist, because animal abuse is not only physical but also psychological
What will happen to the families that live off bullfights?
The project brings an article so that the Government, in a term of six months, makes the labor reconversion of all those people who will be affected by the ban. It must be clarified that there are not many and the Government will have this responsibility to give them other options.
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In 2018 the Constitutional Court declared that bullfights are a cultural expression, does the project not contradict what the Court said?
In the same ruling in which the Constitutional Court said that bullfights are a cultural expression, it also said that it is precisely the Congress that can determine the limits and scope of that cultural expression and whether or not it can be banned. It is the same Court that has called Congress in several sentences to make a decision on this matter, so the bill is not contradictory.
We do not believe that an expression of animal torture, such a savage way of treating an animal, can be considered culture.
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