Ramon Ramos
Peru is a country where activists have been desperately trying to ban bullfighting. the fight that started in Spain is going into other Spanish-speaking countries that have celebrations that mark ridiculing and mocking a bull to its eventual death but this Peruvian classic is even more tragic. losers in the backwaters of Peruvian villages actually have their own tragic twisted version of this Spanish loco treatment of bulls.
Yawar Fiestas, are held each year in 38 villages across the Peruvian Andes at least once a year. Townspeople take turns running in front of a bull enraged by a condor tired into its back. A Condor is strapped to a bulls back and then they have a bullfight. The threatened bird species is threatened in Peru and many are killed in this fashion of non compos mentis tradition in the Peruvian highlands. These morons teach their youth at an early age that wildlife is in expendable and having a Bull run around in a dazed angry, confused manner is somehow entertainment. I am not sure if television has got its way down to some of these rural villages and maybe there is some contamination in the water due to all these years of mining in this country. Fortunately there are urban progressives in Peru who stage protests at an international level against bullfighting and Peru is ground zero for activists to eventually stop this practice in Peru and elsewhere.
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