Famed author Ernest Hemingway was a bullfight aficionado, who wrote notably about that particular Spanish passion in “Death in the Afternoon” and in various articles. But now, bullfighting is being banned even in part of Spain.
The parliament of Catalonia, in northeastern Spain, has voted to end bullfighting, effective in 2012.
There have been drama, excitement, passion and pageantry in bullfighting – but also danger, bloodshed and animal cruelty in the centuries-old “sport.”
But times change – even in Spain.
Some now will best reflect on bullfighting just by reading Hemingway.