The mayhem at the rented home of the California Rodeo Salinas was not bull-riding, steer-tailing, or even bullfighting as done by the rules SALINAS, California––If the Jaripeo Baile held on August 1, 2026 at the Salinas Sports Complex in Salinas, California had been an authentic exhibition of Mexican culture, the participants who kicked and […]
Feds bust Louisiana cop for allegedly retaliating against cockfighting witness
Cop apparently tried to forge documents to get witness deported as alleged illegal alien GULFPORT, Mississippi––Confirmation of probable collusion between cockfighters and elements of law enforcement surfaced in Gulfport, Mississippi on June 1, 2026, days after major cockfighting busts in Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. U.S. Federal Court magistrate judge Bradley Rath denied bond for Hammond, […]
Brigitte Bardot, 91, movie star for 20 years, animal advocate for 52 years
Brigitte Bardot: provocative on film, but even more provocative for animals, for more than twice as long PARIS, France––Brigitte Bardot, 91, a fashion model for four years, a film actress for 20 years, and a full-time animal advocate for the last 52 years of her life, died on December 28, 2025 of undisclosed causes at […]
Eric Sakach, 71, busted dogfights & cockfights but unleashed pit bull horror
Eric Sakach’s anti-BSL policy recommendations preceded explosion of dogfighting & pit bull attacks SACRAMENTO, California––Eric Sakach, 71, a 44-year employee of the Humane Society of the U.S. and a consultant for Animal Wellness Action since his retirement in 2020, was at 1:57 a.m. on November 17, 2025 active on Facebook at his home in Sacramento, […]
Colombian top court upholds bans on bullfights, cockfights & steer-tailing
Judges extend premise of 2024 bullfighting ban to all forms of making animals fight for human entertainment BOGOTA, Colombia––Bullfighting, cockfighting, steer-tailing, and related activities are now illegal in Colombia. The Plenary Chamber of the Constitutional Court of Colombia on September 4, 2025 upheld a bullfighting ban, Law 2385, signed into law in July 2024 by […]
Mexico City again bans Spanish-style bullfights, now by public demand
Judicial ruling suspended bullfights in 2022-2023. Lifting the injunction aroused the people & politicians. MEXICO CITY, Mexico––Traditional Spanish-style bullfighting is again banned in Mexico City, for the second time in four years. This time the ban, passed 61-1 by the Congress of Mexico City, may stick. “México Sin Toreo, a coalition of organizations, submitted […]
Mexican humane law passes: eyewash, or a start against endemic violence?
Unanimously passed Mexican law could be a new beginning, but results may take time to see MEXICO CITY––Does it matter that the Mexican federal legislature has passed non-binding constitutional protections for animals, in a nation with violent crime and murder rates three to five times higher than those of the U.S., plus notoriously corrupt law […]
Pit bull attacks, not bullfighting bans, are the talk of South America
Owner of Dogo Argentinos who killed 15-year-old girl to go to trial SANTIAGO, Chile; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil; BUENOS AIRES, Argentina––The biggest cities in the biggest nations of South America are buzzing about fighting bulls, but of the canine order, not the bovine kind. One might imagine that the Colombian national ban on Spanish-style […]
Colombia bans bullfights
Anti-bullfighting president Gustavo Petro wins 12-year political battle BOGOTA, Colombia––Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia, on May 28, 2024 appeared to win a 12-year fight to ban Spanish-style arena bullfighting. The 166-member Colombian House of Representatives voted 93-2 to ban bullfighting by the start of 2028. The vote in the 102-member Colombian Senate was reportedly 96-2. […]
Bullfighting, cockfighting, & mass murder in Mexico with U.S. links
Mexican Supreme Court appears to rule that freedom from exposure to violence against animals is not a human right MEXICO CITY, Mexico––Bullfighting on January 28, 2024 returned to Plaza México in Mexico City, the world’s largest bullring, six weeks after the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice on December 6, 2023 lifted an injunction that had […]