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Colombia's president signs Bill to ban bullfighting across the country
People dressed as bulls attend a presentation of a law that bans bullfighting by President Gustavo Petro in La Plaza Santa Maria, in Bogota, Colombia, July 22, 2024
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COLOMBIAN President Gustavo Petro signed a Bill on Monday that bans bullfights in the South American country, further reducing the short list of nations around the world where the centuries-old tradition is still legal.
Petro signed it in front of hundreds of animal rights activists during a ceremony held in Bogota’s bullring, after a supporter in a bull costume handed him a copy of the legislation.
“We cannot tell the world that killing living and sentient beings for entertainment is culture,” Petro said in a speech after signing the Bill. “That kind of culture of killing an animal for entertainment would also lead us to killing human beings for entertainment, because we are also animals.”
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