Bullfighting

In the ring with Maripaz Vega, Spain’s only woman bullfighter. “The important thing is that you never lose sight of the bull’s face,” Vega says. “Never.”
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Is bullfighting a tradition Spain should live without? A talk with one of the country’s leading opponents of its most famous – and bloodiest – tradition.
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It isn’t picturesque. It doesn’t drip with local color. But when you get to know it, Hemingway wrote, Madrid is “the most Spanish city of all.” If he went back today, Hemingway would find many of his haunts still have the same charm he found in them decades ago.
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  In Pamplona’s running of the bulls, the notorious bulls of Cebada Gago enter, and disaster strikes.
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“What is needed in bullfighting to-day,” Hemingway wrote, “is a complete bullfighter who is at the same time an artist to save it from the specialists … What it needs is a god to drive the half-gods out. But waiting for a messiah is a long business …” Bullfighting may have that messiah now...
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In a thought-provoking piece, the Christian Science Monitor notes that even as Catalonia has banned bullfighting, Hemingway is still regarded as the sport’s champion. “What would Ernest Hemingway say?” asks writer Marjorie Kehe. “The American author has long been identified with the violent tradition, which he celebrated as a glorious display of courage. Even...
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