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Costa Rica's end-of-year bullfight upturns Spanish tradition / 33688KW
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A bull comes out of the pens, charges and throws improvised bullfighters into the air to get a standing ovation from the audience in the Zapote bullring, in eastern San Jose. In these New Year's bullfights, unlike the traditional Spanish bullfights, where bullfighters are acclaimed for fighting a bull, the animal is not touched and is applauded for catching the adventurous bullfighters who hope to shoot it down in the bullring. But for Juan Carlos Peralta, president of the Association for the Welfare and Protection of Animals, 'there is no longer any excuse to say it is a tradition', the celebration still generates 'suffering' in the bulls. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES