Colombian Constitutional Court orders the resumption of the bullfighting season in Bogotá

The Constitutional Court of Colombia issued a sentence on Tuesday in which it obliges the Bogota City Hall to restore the Plaza de Toros de la Santamaría in the capital for the celebration of bullfights, banned since 2012 when Gustavo Petro he was mayor of the city.

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In the ruling of the Colombian high court, local authorities are required to comply with ruling T-296 of 2013, which orders the immediate restoration of the Bogota bullring to host bullfighting, while ensuring that the District Recreation and Sports Institute (IDRD) “failed to comply with the sentence.”

For this reason, he urged the IDRD to “guarantee the continuity of the artistic expression of bullfighting in the city of Bogotá” in the following bullfighting season and “immediately restore the Plaza de Toros de Santamaría as a permanent bullring for the performance of bullfighting shows and the preservation of bullfighting culture, without prejudice to other cultural or recreational destinations as long as they do not alter their main and traditional destination”.

In addition, the Court added that “against this decision there is no recourse.”

The decision generated rejection in the anti-bullfighting sector, which had celebrated a recent decision by Colombian President Gustavo Petro to suspend bullfights at the Cali Fair.

“We will fight harder for the bill that would ban bullfighting in Colombia,” said Senator Andrea Padilla, one of the promoters of legislation that would ban animal shows, on her Twitter account.

Bullfighting and bullfighting have been a contentious item on the country’s political and legislative agenda in recent years, with several unsuccessful attempts to push a law banning it through Congress.

A project that pursues this end is currently being processed and, for the moment, is still following its legislative course.

The most recent scuffle was led by the Government, after Petro ordered the suspension of the bullfights in Cali, a decision widely criticized by the country’s bullfighting sector.

The Constitutional Court of Colombia, when ruling on the continuity of bullfighting in Bogotá, vetoed in 2012 by the then mayor Petro, issued a ruling in 2017 in which it established that they should be respected in the municipalities where this practice had roots. cultural.

The plazas in Bogotá, Cali and Manizales are one of the few that remain active in Colombia.

Source: Elcomercio

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