The Death of a Tradition: What Mexico City’s Bullfighting Ban Really Means for Culture, Ethics, and the Future of Spectacle
Mexico City has done what many once believed unthinkable: it has outlawed bullfighting after nearly five centuries of ritual, spectacle, blood, and cultural mythology. With an overwhelming 61–1 legislative vote, the city officially banned the killing of bulls and the use of sharp instruments in the ring—effectively bringing the most traditional form of bullfighting to an end.
For some, it is a moral victory long overdue.For others, it is the erasure of a cornerstone of identity.For the country at large, it is a crossroads.
The debate unfolding across Mexico is not only about bulls, or tradition, or even cruelty. It is a debate about what a nation chooses to remember, what it chooses to outgrow, and who gets to decide which traditions survive the march of time.
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