Dragging a bull from the ring in Guadalajara, Mexico
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- January 1980
- Location
- Guadalajara, Mexico
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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A dead bull is dragged from the bullfighting ring by a team of horses led my several men. The men are wearing ceremonial red outfits. Numerous spectators watch from the grandstands.
Bullfighting was brought to the New World from Spain during the colonial period. It is a highly-ritualized sport that still retains its popularity in Mexico. While increasingly termed a bloodsport and criticized by animal-rights activists, practitioners argue the sport is an important cultural institution.
