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AFP : A bull gores a man in the ring during the Corralejas Festival in Guaranda, Sucre, in northeast Colombia on January 28, 2023. – The bull charges in all directions, sowing chaos among hundreds of amateur bullfighters, to the cheers of feverish spectators.

At the beginning of each year, the “corralejas”, a bullfighting game where amateur matadors are allowed to descend into the arena, ignites the Colombian Caribbean. The corralejas are a legacy of Spanish colonization, just like the bullfights, but in them the bull does not die. Colombian senators are studying a bill to ban shows in which animals are likely to be subjected to any kind of suffering. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP)