The Community of Madrid suspends the bullfighting comedy show with dwarf bullfighters from Las Ventas for having sold only 37 tickets

The Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Interior of the Community of Madrid has suspended this Wednesday the bullfighting comic show

that was to be held in Las Ventas on October 8 in the context of the Autumn Fair.

The Community has alleged the shortage of tickets sold to cancel the celebration, according to sources from the department led by Enrique López to this supplement.

The new specifications of Las Ventas include the organization of two bullfighting comedy shows in the bullfighting season of the first bullring in the world.

. Having seen what we have seen, we have come to the conclusion that it is an activity that does not generate any interest. We have suspended it for logistics and operational issues."

"Unfortunately these gentlemen cannot work on what they want," Juan Ajenjo, known as the bullfighting popeye, director of the comic bullfighters gang, lamented to this supplement.

The Ministry of Enrique López would have received, since the celebration was announced, complaints from the Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda and the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (Cermi).

"Spain has no buffoons"

The general director of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,

, has shown his "absolute rejection" of this show.

"From the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 we show our absolute rejection of that culture that

For this reason, we will prohibit this type of practice in the next reform of the disability law," Servimedia has collected.

Martín Blanco added in this regard: "We have already overcome Spain in black and white, and a government cannot remain equidistant before a show like the firefighter bullfighter, where it is legitimized, in a public square, that

, also transmitting this tradition to girls and boys who come to these arenas of horror to learn to laugh at someone who is different".

The president of Cermi,

, expressed his disagreement when he learned that ticket sales had been opened to attend a show that "had not been in Madrid for a long time and, moreover, in a venue owned by the Madrid government.

Likewise, he recalled that it is the Community of Madrid itself that has the competences in shows, for which he has asked the team led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso to act as soon as possible to prevent the image of people with disabilities from being denigrated.

Cermi has been working

, in line with what organizations defending the rights of people with achondroplasia and other skeletal dysplasias with dwarfism are demanding.

"Dictatorship"

"We live in a dictatorship. In 43 years I had not seen anything like it. Going to the extreme of suspending the show due to the pressure of this association is humiliating for the little ones.

, "said Ajenjo .

"The little ones", as Ajenjo refers to people affected by achondroplasia,

. In winter, the boys dedicate themselves to discotheques or bachelor parties. But they are not free to practice of bullfighters," he commented irritably.

The representative of the bullfighting Popeye has not had time to prepare the defense against the complaints of the ministry and the group that brings together the disabled.

The suspension has come unexpectedly.

," warned Jesús de Alba, manager of bullfighter Javier Castaño, professor at the El Juli foundation and bullfighter.

"We had prepared several letters in defense of this show.

.

"Little Bullfighters"

Jesús de Alba has defended Plaza 1, the company that manages Las Ventas, and the Community, owner of the property.

"They have rowed in favor of their celebration."

The attorney points to the Resolution of September 2, 2022, of the General Directorate of Labor, published on September 16 in the BOE, as the main source of problems.

Article 9 regulates the physical conditions of the performers in the comic bullfighting festivities.

The gang "will be made up" of "a gang leader, a bullfighter older than the cattle to deal [...] with self-sufficient physical capacity for the fight and a minimum of five 'small' bullfighters."

"And if I want to hire a small bullfighter, another fat one and another very tall one, I can't?" Jesús de Alba asked himself.

The bullfighting Popeye has performed this year in several bullrings.

. On October 9 we are contracted in Jaén. Let's see what happens now. My intention was to relaunch this show. The associations themselves deny the right to work of these men and women. They do not let them work ".

The bullfighting comedy show was, for several decades, the first contact of many children with bullfighting.

A serious part used to be included where briefcases, bullfighting school students or bullfighting promises would fight.

, Jesús de Alba summarized.

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