The Colombian Congress approves the ban on bullfighting

The Colombian Area of Representatives licensed this Tuesday the ban on bullfighting. In a half-filled chamber, there have been 93 votes in want and a couple of towards. Now, the undertaking will have to undergo a reconciliation between the textual content licensed this Tuesday and the only prior to now outlined through the Senate, to then be sanctioned through the president. Gustavo Petroone in every of its defenders.

The consultant speaker, Alejandro García (Alianza Verde), recalled after the approval that the initiative went via a number of stumbling blocks in contemporary months. “We knew it would not be simple. However we by no means imagined it might be so tough. This undertaking has fallen 14 occasions and now it’s just about turning into legislation,” stated the Risraldense. Likewise, he known as on bullfighters to take part within the conversion of bullrings into cultural areas. “To the towns, Manizales and Cali, I say: this is a chance for those underused areas (one week a 12 months) to be really puts of tradition, artwork and game,” he remarked. “We inform the rustic that animal welfare is prioritized, and we inform the arena that Colombia is in a strategy of cultural reconversion.”

The writer of the undertaking, Juan Carlos Losada (Liberal Celebration), additionally emphasised that it used to be “10 years of combat.” “What you will have right here nowadays is a rustic that claims that there’s no type of torture that may be thought to be tradition on this international. “Colombia units an instance for all of the international as a result of we’re turning into an increasingly more much less violent and increasingly more civilized society,” declared the Bogota local mins after the vote. “Torture isn’t regulated, however prohibited.”

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