Partially clad demonstrators oppose bullfighting
By IANSMonday, February 7, 2011
Mexico City, Feb 8 (IANS/EFE) More than 300 partially clad demonstrators turned out in Mexico City over the weekend to protest bullfighting, organisers said.
The protest was staged Sunday, a day after the capital’s Plaza Monumental marked its 65th anniversary, representatives of animal rights group Anima Naturalis told EFE.
The demonstration was staged on the esplanade outside the Palace of Fine Arts, where animal rights activists covered in red paint gathered with signs calling for an end to bullfights.
The animal rights activists spelled out the word “Basta” (Enough) on the terrace.
“There were more than 300 activists” involved in the protest, Anima Naturalis president Leonora Esquivel said.
The esplanade outside the Palace of Fine Arts, one of Mexico City’s most prominent cultural centers, was chosen to make the statement that torturing animals “is not art or culture”, Esquivel said.
A demonstrator raised an anti-bullfighting sign and the rest of the protesters fell to the ground to express their condemnation of bullfighting.
–IANS/EFE
