Mexico: Judge bans bullfighting in the capital again

The anti-bullfighting movement in Mexico has once again taken legal action against the practice, involving the courts in their efforts. This Wednesday, a federal judge banned bullfighting in Mexico City, again. This happened just a few days after the festivities returned to the Monumental de México for the first time in two years.

Those two years of inactivity were a result of an anti-bullfighting lobby that was able to get a judge to ban bullfights as a precautionary measure throughout the trial. In 2023, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation revoked said suspension and the first bullfight was held last Sunday after more than 600 days of hiatus.

This decision did not prevent the animal lobby from going back to court to attack a cultural tradition that last Sunday brought together more than 42,000 people to fill the largest bullring in the world and the third most important to the brim.

The new suspension comes from the Fifth District Court for Administrative Matters of Mexico City, presided over by federal judge Sandra de Jesús Zúñiga. This came as a result of an injunction submitted by "Todas y Todos por Amor a los Toros." The judge will decide whether to definitively suspend bullfighting on February 7. Currently, there are bullfights scheduled for the 5th of the month.