Mexico’s Supreme Court lifts 2022 ban on bullfighting

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a 2022 ban on bullfighting in Mexico City&comma; opening the way for events to resume&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A panel of five justices voted to overturn a May 2022 injunction that said bullfights violated city residents’ rights to a healthy environment free from violence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The justices did not explain their arguments for overturning the ban&comma; but bullfight organisers said it violated their right to continue the tradition&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The capital had a history of almost 500 years of bullfighting&comma; but there had been no fights since the 2022 injunction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A crowd of people gathered outside the Supreme Court building holding up signs reading &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Bulls Yes&comma; Bullfighters No&excl;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mexico says no to bullfights”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Critics say the fights inherently represent cruelty to animals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Animals are not things&comma; they are living beings with feelings&comma; and these living&comma; feeling beings deserve protection under the constitution of Mexico City&comma;” said city councillor Jorge Gavino&comma; who has tried three times to pass legislation for a permanent ban&period; None has passed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bullfight organisers say it is a question of rights&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is not an animal welfare issue&period; This is an issue of freedoms&comma; and how justice is applied to the rest of the public&comma;” said Jose Saborit&comma; the director of the Mexican Association of Bullfighting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A small sector of the population wants to impose its moral outlook&comma; and I think there is room for all of us in this world&comma; in a regulated way&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since 2013 several of Mexico’s 32 states have banned bullfights&period; Brazil&comma; Argentina&comma; Chile and Uruguay have banned bullfighting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to historians&comma; Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes watched some of the first bullfights in the city in the 1520s&comma; soon after his 1521 conquest of the Aztec capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"position&colon;relative&semi;padding-top&colon;max&lpar;60&percnt;&comma;326px&rpar;&semi;height&colon;0&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;"><iframe allow&equals;"clipboard-write" sandbox&equals;"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms" allowfullscreen&equals;"true" style&equals;"position&colon;absolute&semi;border&colon;none&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;height&colon;100&percnt;&semi;left&colon;0&semi;right&colon;0&semi;top&colon;0&semi;bottom&colon;0&semi;" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;e&period;issuu&period;com&sol;embed&period;html&quest;d&equals;london&lowbar;glossy&lowbar;autumn&lowbar;wellness&lowbar;special&lowbar;2023&&num;038&semi;u&equals;londonglossymag"><&sol;iframe><&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e3f5bfa9">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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