Los toros son un espectáculo muy rentable para la Administración. Al contrario del manido discurso antitaurino instalado en la sociedad de que los toros son un espectáculo subvencionado, por fin el sector se ha puesto manos a la obra para publicar un informe con datos oficiales para contradecir este argumento.
El periodista Carlos Herrera ha presentado este miércoles en el Casino Gran Vía de Madrid el estudio titulado ‘Los toros en España: un gran impacto económico con mínimas subvenciones’, encargado por ANOET (Asociación Nacional de Empresarios Taurinos) a la Universidad de Extremadura. Lo ha dirigido el prestigioso profesor Juan Medina, con la colaboración de Mar Gutiérrez, Secretaria Técnica de ANOET.
‘UNA MENTIRA FALAZ’
Carlos Herrera ha comenzado la presentación del acto con la manifestación de la necesidad de ‘desmitificar’ el argumento de que los toros son un espectáculo subvencionado: ‘Está instalada la idea de que los toros son un espectáculo sangriento, con mínimo aprecio por parte de la sociedad y máxima subvención, tenemos que demostrar que eso es una mentira falaz’.
‘Este estudio -ha afirmado el locutor- quiere desmitificar que el torero necesita ese dinero para sobrevivir. De partida, en los Presupuestos Generales del Estado tan solo hay una partida de 30.000 euros para unos premios que en la mayoría de casos no se llega ni a percibir’.
Los datos son claros: el teatro tiene 1230 veces más subvención que el toreo pero recauda un 25% menos de dinero en taquilla. ‘Los datos demuestran que la actividad taurina, además de seru n firme valor cultural, ecológico y tradicional, es un pingüe negocio para el Estado’, sostuvo Carlos Herrera.
‘LOS TOROS GENERAN 1600 MILLONES DE EUROS’
A continuación tomó el turno de palabra Óscar Chopera, presidente de ANOET, para descifrar algunos de los datos que se aportan en el documento: ‘La actividad taurina genera 1600 millones de euros de impacto en toda España’.
‘Por cada euro ingresado, el toreo genera 2,8 de impacto’, comienza a desgranar. La aportación real que recibe el toreo como ayuda es de ‘25,5 millones de euros de todas las administraciones (Estado, CCAA y Ayuntamientos), lo que supone un 0,9% del presupuesto destinado a Cultura’. A lo que añade: ‘Si descontamos los alquileres y canon de plaza que realizan las empresas a la Administración, esta cuantía se queda en 19 millones’.
Hay más datos de 2013, refrendados con documentos oficiales: ‘La recaudación en taquilla fue de 209 millones de euros, de los cuales el 21% de IVA supone 43,86 millones de euros que van a parar al estado’. Y la cifra aumenta: ‘El toreo genera 50.000 empleos directos y unos 142.000 indirectos. Esto supone 12 millones de euros en cotizaciones a la seguridad social’. En conclusión: ‘Si sumamos el IVA, las cotizaciones y los arrendamientos, el toreo duplica a la administración el dinero que recibe’.
El estudio concluye con una cita relevante: ‘La huella económica de la Tauromaquia es profundamente relevante, lograda sin apenas apoyo público, constituye una notable excepción en el panorama cultural español. Todos estos datos representan la mayor prueba evidente contras las acusaciones falaces que presentan a la Tauromaquia como un espectáculo subvencionado y en decadencia’.
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http://www.mundotoro.com/noticia/el-toreo-genera-1-600-millones-de-euros/1278253
March 31, 2016
March 28, 2016
March 27, 2016
Domingo de Resurreccion, el Juli y Roca Rey en la Feria de Pascua de Arles
Today, Easter Sunday, the newest name in el mundo de los toros, the Peruvian matador Roca Rey will perform in Arles France with his idol Julian Lopez who he met as a kid.
Oh to be in the south of France on this Easter Sunday.
March 26, 2016
March 24, 2016
City Slickers
1991
Storyline - Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. There they meet cowboy Curly who not only teaches them how to become real cowboys, but also one or two other things about life in the open air of the west.
I saw this film in the theatre with my friends and we loved it, it was well made and very funny throughout.
The opening scene takes place during the Pamplona bull run. Of course to anyone who knows anything about the running of the bulls you can easily tell that the scenes with the actors took place on a back lot somewhere in Hollywood and the bulls they were running with were not toros bravos.
But I do give them credit for filming an entertaining scene and they did weave actual encierro footage to add to it's realism.
And I don't know how many days they had to film to get one particular shot but as you can see in the above photo they actually had someone dressed in a New York Mets uniform and hat run perfectly "in the horns" for an unforgettable addition to the scene.
One final hats off to the film is a classic line that actor Bruno Kirby says describing Jack Palance's character Curly.
"This guy is a cowboy, one of the last real men. He's untamed, a mustang. We're trained ponies, it will do us good to be in his world for awhile."
March 20, 2016
Inside the toreador tailors: Intricate designs and delicate stitching of the elaborate costumes worn by the world's best bullfighters
Master tailor Fermin Lopez Fuentes founded his bullfighters' bespoke tailor shop in 1963, Fermin's is one of only six specialist tailors in Spain to make only bullfighting costumes.
(dailymail.co.uk 2-9-14)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2555245/Inside-toreador-tailors-Intricate-designs-delicate-stitching-elaborate-costumes-worn-worlds-best-bullfighters.html
First bull of the year in Madrid
Daunting horns on the first bull of the year in Madrid provided by the Gavira ranch.
Spain to teach bullfighting in schools
Spain’s education ministry has drawn up plans to create courses in bullfighting as an option in state schools
(by James Badcock telegraph.co.uk 10-18-16)
Spain's education ministry has drawn up plans to create courses in bullfighting as an optional subject in state schools.
For the first time, bullfighting, as well as other subjects related to the spectacle, will be available for students aged 16 and older who move into vocational training after finishing their compulsory education.
The move appears to represent a final attempt to defend the activity by Spain’s conservative government before elections in December.
Students who complete the course will receive a professional training certificate in "Tauromachy – bullfighting – and Auxiliary Livestock Activities" after they have learned the skills of bullfighting, the regulations applied to the event and the rules on breeding Spain’s fighting bulls.
The full-time, two-year courses will be offered at a number of high schools around the country.
Two regions run by Left-wing coalitions, Valencia and the Balearic Islands, are considering possible bans on bullfighting. They would join Catalonia and the Canary Islands, where the practice is already outlawed.
But the education ministry’s draft proposals defend the decision to include bullfighting in the state educational system as a logical extension of the activity’s importance within Spanish society, denying any political dimension to the move.
“Tauromachy is an artistic practice which forms part of popular tradition and culture with no ideological links,” the text reads, continuing: “Bullfighting and bull-related festivals are subject to a constant evolution, making it impossible to guess in which way they will adapt to the changing sensitivities of our times and those to come”.
Pacma, Spain’s leading animal rights organisation, criticised the move, saying it “makes a joke of Spain’s educational system”.
Silvia Barquero, Pacma’s leader who will be running as a candidate in Spain’s December 20 general elections, said the government had seen the pressure build against bullfighting and decided “to rush through a change that means young people can study how to torture an animal to death”.
Aside from their demand for a complete ban on bullfighting, Pacma has campaigned for minors to be banned from bullrings to prevent them from witnessing what animal rights supporters say is a violent spectacle.
The inclusion of the course in the national curriculum could also throw a lifeline to Spain’s bullfighting schools, some of which are facing financial difficulties as Left-wing authorities remove subsidies from the sector.
Academic elements of the course would be studied in high school classrooms, but bullfighting skills would be imparted at existing specialised academies.
Madrid’s Marcial Lalanda bullfighting school, which last month saw its €61,200 (£45,000) annual subsidy withdrawn by Madrid’s Left-wing mayor, Manuela Carmena, could be among those to benefit.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/11938960/Spain-to-teach-bullfighting-in-schools.html
But the education ministry’s draft proposals defend the decision to include bullfighting in the state educational system as a logical extension of the activity’s importance within Spanish society, denying any political dimension to the move.
“Tauromachy is an artistic practice which forms part of popular tradition and culture with no ideological links,” the text reads, continuing: “Bullfighting and bull-related festivals are subject to a constant evolution, making it impossible to guess in which way they will adapt to the changing sensitivities of our times and those to come”.
Pacma, Spain’s leading animal rights organisation, criticised the move, saying it “makes a joke of Spain’s educational system”.
Silvia Barquero, Pacma’s leader who will be running as a candidate in Spain’s December 20 general elections, said the government had seen the pressure build against bullfighting and decided “to rush through a change that means young people can study how to torture an animal to death”.
Aside from their demand for a complete ban on bullfighting, Pacma has campaigned for minors to be banned from bullrings to prevent them from witnessing what animal rights supporters say is a violent spectacle.
The inclusion of the course in the national curriculum could also throw a lifeline to Spain’s bullfighting schools, some of which are facing financial difficulties as Left-wing authorities remove subsidies from the sector.
Academic elements of the course would be studied in high school classrooms, but bullfighting skills would be imparted at existing specialised academies.
Madrid’s Marcial Lalanda bullfighting school, which last month saw its €61,200 (£45,000) annual subsidy withdrawn by Madrid’s Left-wing mayor, Manuela Carmena, could be among those to benefit.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/11938960/Spain-to-teach-bullfighting-in-schools.html
March 18, 2016
March 17, 2016
March 14, 2016
March 13, 2016
Trailer for documentary "Gored"
I recently watched this documentary, which is currently available on Netflix, which covers the life, career, and retirement of Antonio Barrera.
It wasn't bad, it wasn't great, but it was definitely worth the time.
It does have an amazing scene of a "portagayola" Antonio performs at his last bullfight which took place in Leon Mexico on December 12th, 2012.
At times it tries to be too "artsy" when I would rather just see some well filmed bullfight action or maybe some rarely seen behind-the-scenes action.
But if you are a student of la corrida like I am then it is a must see since we don't too often get to see bullfight material here in the US.
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