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Opinion: Spanish bulls hail provincial ban on ‘fighting’ them

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Good news for bulls in Spain.

And it has nothing to do with Michelle Obama’s recent luxury resort vacation there.

Spain’s centuries-old tradition of bull-killing, often mistakenly called bull-fighting despite the animal being unarmed, is threatened.

The provincial parliament of Catalonia has become the first in that nation to ban the usually fatal sport starting Jan. 1, 2012, causing a recent surge of bovine illegal immigration there. It’s now the turn of traditionalists among the human population of Spain to see rojo.

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