Target: Alejandro Gertz Manero, Attorney General of Mexico
Goal: Enforce animal-cruelty laws by prosecuting bullfighting organizers and participants to the fullest extent and securing lifetime bans on their activities.
Each year, thousands of bulls are subjected to ritualized torment for public amusement. According to recent demonstrations by animal-protection advocates, assailants on horseback are said to drive lances deep into a bull’s neck and back before others plunge banderillas that rip muscle with every movement. When the exhausted animal collapses from blood loss, a matador thrusts a sword through his lungs, and a knife is used to sever his spinal cord. Even then, the conscious bull may have his ears or tail sliced off as a grisly trophy while his body is dragged from the arena.
Activists further claim that these spectacles breach Mexico’s constitutional prohibitions against animal abuse, yet promoters continue staging events and scheduling new fights. In some cities, bulls are set to be killed during upcoming fairs despite public outcry and mounting legal challenges. By allowing these acts to proceed, authorities risk normalizing violence and undermining wider efforts to curb cruelty.
Meaningful deterrence is urgently needed. Arrests, charges, permanent revocation of event permits, and lifelong bans on working with animals would send a clear message: profit and tradition never justify prolonged suffering. Immediate, decisive prosecution will protect bulls and uphold the nation’s animal-welfare principles.
PETITION LETTER:
Attorney General Gertz Manero,
Video evidence and eyewitness reports depict bulls being repeatedly stabbed with lances and banderillas, forced to stumble in pools of their own blood, and ultimately dispatched with a sword and knife before cheering crowds. Organizers allegedly promote these events despite constitutional and penal-code provisions that outlaw deliberate animal cruelty.
Such spectacles inflict slow, excruciating deaths while conveying that torment can be celebrated as culture. Allowing them to continue not only harms animals but also erodes respect for law and fuels public indifference to violence. Other states have moved to outlaw or sharply restrict bullfighting, yet promoters reportedly plan additional fights that would culminate in more needless killings.
We respectfully urge your office to pursue felony cruelty charges against organizers, breeders, and performers involved in these events; demand maximum prison sentences and fines; and seek court-ordered prohibitions on owning, handling, or exhibiting animals. Strong, consistent enforcement will honor Mexico’s legal protections and spare countless bulls from agony.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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