(8 Oct 2024)
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Bogota, Colombia – 8 October 2024
1. Demonstrators marching through streets of Bogota
2. Demonstrators holding a banner reading (Spanish): “With the prohibition of our culture, they attack Colombian agriculture”
3. Various of demonstrators holding flags and banners marching through streets
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Efran Rojas, protester:
"The first thing we are defending is a culture and a tradition, that which we were given from our grandparents, our parents, our ancestors and which we have created a culture with. We fight so that it’s not prohibited, for them to regulate it but to not prohibit it (referring to cockfighting).
5. Demonstrators holding banner reading (Spanish): “No to prohibition, yes to regulation”
6. President of the Federation of Cockfighters giving speech on stage at the Central Plaza
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Campo Elías Manotas, protester:
"What we are doing is protecting the work of more than 290,000 families here in Colombia; 290,000 jobs of which 165,000 are direct jobs and 125,000 are indirect jobs. This means that each one of these people with their nuclear family add up to more than 1.4 million people in Colombia who economically depend on the rooster activity."
8. Various of demonstrators in Plaza Bolivar after marching through the streets of Bogota
STORYLINE:
Colombians took to the streets of Bogota on Tuesday to urge lawmakers to regulate cockfighting in the country, rather than to ban it.
Thousands of people all over the country and from different social statuses participated in the demonstration, with many concerned that cockfighting could have the same fate as bullfighting in Colombia.
Earlier this year, President Gustavo Petro signed legislation that places restrictions on bullfighting for a three-year transitional period and then imposes a full ban by mid-2027.
Recent polls conducted across Colombia indicate bullfighting has lost popularity in the South American country, and animal rights activists have widely celebrated the government’s efforts to end an endeavor they describe as cruel and out of touch with modern values.
Supporters of cockfighting say they are standing up for their cultural freedoms and traditions.
“The first thing we defend is a culture and a tradition,” said Efran Rojas, who joined the protest on Tuesday.
“We defend our grandparents, our parents, our ancestors and what we bring from our ancestors, which has raised us a culture and we fight so that they don’t prohibit it, to regulate it but not to prohibit it."
The majority of the protesters were those in support of regulating cockfighting but many bullfighting supporters also joined the demonstration.
Protesters say their industries provide hundreds of thousands of jobs to Colombians.
After marching through the capital Bogota, the demonstrators gathered at Plaza de Bolívar.
AP video shot by Marko Alvarez
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