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...Luis Alcántara is afraid that group will be large enough to undo 11 years of work. Since 1998, he has run a bullfighting school in Hospitalet, just outside Barcelona. His enrollments were hurt by the under-14 provision of the animal-cruelty law that was passed in 2003, and these days, he has only nine students practicing their capework on an abandoned football field. He worries that the initiative will put him out of business altogether. "Nobody here really hears about us," he says. "We go to a corrida and then go home until the following Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Catalonia Moves to Ban Bullfighting | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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