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For some time the taurine press has been informing
and commenting positively about the bloodless bullfights that will be presented
in the in the North American city of Las Vegas. Nevertheless the content of the
information has been confusing about the cartels as well as the dates until the
middle of May when Don Bull Productions, the empresa that organizes the
bullfighting program in Las Vegas, issued a press release announcing the
taurine program for September.
The program lists the matadors and rejoneadors who
will be performing in the five scheduled corridas, but it does not list the
brands of the bulls to be fought by them. These are the cartels:
Monday, September 14. Matadors “Zotoluco” from Mexico; Alejandro Amaya
from Mexico; and Julio Benítez “El Cordobés Jr.” from Spain.
Tuesday, September 15. Rejoneadors Antonio Domecq, Rui Fernandes
and Jorge Hernández Gárate.
Sunday, September 27. Matadors Ortega Cano, Enrique Ponce
and Antonio Barrera all
three from Spain,
Monday, September 28. Matadors Javier Conde from Spain; “El Juli” from
Spain; and Federico
Pizarro from Mexico.
Tuesday, September 29. Matadors Rivera Ordóńez, “El Juli”
y “El Fandi”, all three
from Spain.
Wednesday, September 30. Matadors Enrique Ponce from Spain; “Pedrito de Portugal” from Portugal; and Luis
Bolívar from Colombia.
The news of having corridas in Nevada has been
exciting for the American aficionados, since they will have a chance to see
first class and popular Spanish Mexican, Colombian, and Portuguese matadors and
rejoneadors performing on American soil. Also, In Spain this new has been
interpreted as a positive sign that the fiesta brava, in spite of its
detractors, is expanding into new territory, even if this expansion proves to
be temporary, and the corridas are not presented in the purest form of the art,
because of insurmountable political motives.
