Yes to Bulls! No to Bulls! About the Period when Benito Juárez Banned Bullfighting
This essay analizes the bullfighting milieu and the most relevant political events occurring in Mexico City between 1863 and 1867, in order to understand why Benito Juárez decreed the prohibition of bullfighting in Mexico's capital on November 28, 1867, a decree which stayed in force for almos...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Country: | México |
| Institution: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repository: | Historia Mexicana |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/158 |
| Online Access: | https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/158 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Mexico city bulls Juárez 19th Century ciudad de México toros siglo XIX |
| Summary: | This essay analizes the bullfighting milieu and the most relevant political events occurring in Mexico City between 1863 and 1867, in order to understand why Benito Juárez decreed the prohibition of bullfighting in Mexico's capital on November 28, 1867, a decree which stayed in force for almost twenty years. The presence of the French army, the arrival, stay and execution of Maximilian of Habsburg, the migrating government of Juárez and his political triumph, plus a hurricane in Matamoros, make up the framework of that episode, which was lived with great intensity in the midst of a political debate which brought civilization face to face with barbarity or, among many other things, enlightenment with the ill treatment of animals that could be useful to society. |
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