Monday, 26 July 2010 11:14

This week, the Constitutional Court shall decide to grant pardons to the bullfight in Colombia or handed a sword of death. Should decide on a constitutional claim against article 7. Act 84 of 1989 on the protection of animals. In this issue, as on the same tasks, opinion is divided. Three judges were against and three in favor of torture known as bullfighting. Must weigh well the judges final determination. You can not deny that anti-bullfighting sentiment is growing, especially in youth, and the debate grows in the world. In Catalonia (Spain), on Wednesday is likely to be voted a law against it.

But bullfighting in Colombia, apart from the alleged cultural and historical roots, are at stake constitutional rights of minorities, and must often defend the Court. Beyond that respectable arguments and violence against animals, in these times of economic crisis, when unemployment reaches 13 percent and there are millions of people in the task of moonlighting, with 46 percent of poverty, end bullfighting can be gored a large sector. About 5,000 families live around the cruel death of the bulls. We also intend to take into account the wild herds, with the personal, professional, technical and wages, they employ.

Is said to constitute a serious impact on the economies of cities like Cali, Manizales and Medellín, among others, with its bullfighting festivals revive their economies.

One of the arguments that weighs more in favor of the conservation of bull is that thanks to the activity, the bull is actor protector of biodiversity, although it is grown and maintained in a cruel death, in an unfair duel , monstrous, inhuman against a human, as if the murderer and the behavior bloody spectacle out of our Colombian origins and cultural roots, we remind you that the "culture" is not ours and we should not defend, nor is it a matter of social right, as who is capable of torturing, abusing and killing an animal so it is considered from the psychological point as a mental disorder.