After two years the Monumental Plaza México housed a run of Bulls and no one wanted to miss the event despite the protests that gathered around the venue.
In a packed house until the clock, the celebrations returned in the capital’s arena. Various personalities, famousattended the largest bullfighting facility in the world to appreciate a bullfight composed of the matadors Joselito Adame, Diego Silveti and Andrés Roca Rey, who faced a Tequisquiapan bull run.
On the lines and on the barriers He showed football people like Mikel Arriola, who serves as president of Liga MX, as well as the former players Manuel Negrete and Miguel Layún, who barely hung up his boots at the end of the last 2023 Apertura Tournament.
In the seats of the Insurgentes Funnel, people such as the former rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico also witnessed the bullfight, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, as well as the businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego. Everyone was seen enjoying the return of the “Fiesta Brava” to La México.
Meanwhile, outside the Christmas Eve neighborhood, what was initially expected to be a peaceful protest against bullfightingended in violent events.
Different anti-bullfighting and animal rights groups They met at 11:30 a.m. at the Glorieta de Insurgentes. With banners of “murderers” and “killing is not culture”, the more than 150 people started a march along Insurgentes Avenue one hour later.
“You have to be stupid and ignorant, to consider killing animals art and culture,” said an anti-bullfighting woman to THIS, while others compared bullfighting to slavery. Since, according to them, “both generate jobs and a lot of money with inhuman acts.”
The whole journey was peaceful, with songs against the ministers, the bullfighters and more, They advanced to Axis 6. Once there, cThey missed all the roads and made a representation of what they called “act of murder”, with a woman wearing a bull mask and with a bloody body, while another companion in a death costume was in charge of “ending her life.”
About 20 minutes later, The group advanced to the main entrance of Plaza México, But once the authorities denied them passage, they moved to Gate 6 where they encountered another protest and that’s when everything exploded.
Several tried to slam the door while members of the Secretariat of Citizen Security resisted the attacks from the other side. At the same time, others threw stones, boats, sticks and even drums with which the police close the security fences.
On the sides of the fence other anti-bullfighting They hammered the walls and also painted. They also had no shame with those adult bullfighters who were looking for the access door, as they hit them with everything they could find.
“I have nothing against them, but what they do is wrong. It’s called vandalism and it affects us,” he said. THIS is a seller of bullfighting itemsjust when on one side of his premises the protesters threw rocks at the building.
The most tense moment was when, from the stairs to enter the venue, bullfighters provoked them with threats of mother to the detractors. A middle-aged woman tried to respond by climbing the wall to throw things at them, and the police quickly intervened to stop her.
This caused the fury of protesters who demanded his immediate release “or we will take the necessary measures.” Of course, they meant breaking in through violence.
Faced with the threat, security elements They gave in and released the person, but the protest continued with spitting, beatings, and so on against the police.
Finally, almost 3 hours after the riots began, They advanced towards Insurgentes although on their way they took the opportunity to hit anyone who looked bullfighting. “Murderers,” they shouted at them.