Fuente: eldiario.es
University professor Javier López-Galiacho has requested that the conclusions of the First International Congress of Bullfighting include bringing bullfighting into schools, because he believes "it has much to teach" and would help to address "the major problem of generational change."
López-Galiacho, a tenured professor at the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences at Rey Juan Carlos University and author of the book "Head-on, short and by right (essay on bullfighting for personal and business leadership)", has participated in one of the round tables of the Congress that is being held during the weekend in Albacete.
He emphasized that bullfighting "teaches how to lose" and considered that this can contribute "a lot" to students because for a long time young people have only been taught "success, triumph, and it is important to know how to lose."
Furthermore, he has presented bullfighting as an "example of ethics," hence the importance of bringing it into schools as a source of "values."
For her part, writer and photographer Muriel Ferier, founder in the United States of the International Bullfighting Club, has criticized those voices "that say that bullfighting harms tourism in this country," and has maintained that "quite the opposite is true, this festival favors tourism," she insisted.
In a round table discussion about this sector as cultural heritage, journalist Pedro Javier Cáceres said that political parties should be required to present their positions on bullfighting issues, because it is not possible "to predict at this time what may happen" to the world of bullfighting depending on who wins the elections.
"We have to do politics loud and clear," Cáceres stated, after explaining that the cases of Catalonia and San Sebastián against bullfighting are different because "in Catalonia there is a prohibition," while in the Gipuzkoa capital he blamed "an authoritarian mayor who governs this way but who may stop doing so after the elections."
Furthermore, he has asked the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, José Ignacio Wert, who was on the same stage to inaugurate the congress, "to urge once and for all that the Constitutional Court rule on the ban on bullfighting in Catalonia."
He also stressed that "it is necessary to unite wills" to obtain a declaration to submit to UNESCO and be able to achieve the declaration of bullfighting as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Cáceres has noted the absence of "the big employers' association" at this congress, as he pointed out that bullfighting is a cultural asset and also "a big business".