Living in a country where the bulls are a tradition, mostly based on our historic roots, I want to express my views, bullfighting is not a sport, they call it a FIESTA, which translates as PARTY, well, I don't like bull fighting, I think is an anachronic spectacle, and a shame, in fact I guess a big part of the people in my country think the same.
About Pamplona, the tradition of taking the bulls through the streets to the PLAZA,has hundreds of years, funny, is that if even most days the are people hurt, a dead is very rare, about 11 people have died in the past century, which considering the number of people every day during the time the Fiesta de San Fermin lasts, is even surpricingly small, many will find this crazy, but actually tere is even a technic to run properly with the bulls, or what to do in every situation, like having a newspaper, when falling don't get up, when a bull gets still, don't move, et al, I have the impression that some americans get fascinated by this explosion of adrenaline, since there are tons of tourist every year, specially americans, ( I wonder if Ernest Hemingway fascination with bulls had something to do) and in fact most wounded or for instance the last one that died in Pamplona was an american about a decade ago.
Oh, I would never ever would go there!
