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Luis Rivera<\/h1>

Veterinary Doctor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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\u201c<\/span>THE PANDEMIC IS THE PERFECT EXCUSE TO STIFLE<\/strong> BULLFIGHTING EVEN MORE\u201d<\/span><\/h2>
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Mr. Luis Rivera, in one of his tackrooms, next to the harness room at San Miguel Ranch.\tMr. Luis Rivera, in one of his tackrooms, next to the harness room at San Miguel Ranch.<\/span><\/span><\/a>
Mr. Luis Rivera, in one of his tackrooms, next to the harness room at San Miguel Ranch.<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

October 2020<\/p>\n

How is Mr. Luis Rivera doing?<\/strong>
\nGood. Excited, eager to finish some work that I haven\u2019t finished yet and with many reasons to be thankful for what life and the Lord have given to me. Spiritually, I\u2019m eager to do, eager to give. I\u2019m in the last third of my life, with the red cape the only thing I ask for is for them not to lower their hands too much and to give me a break between batches, otherwise my hands might bend.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Mr. Luis Rivera, in one of his tackrooms, next to
\nthe harness room at San Miguel Ranch.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

Last year you were awarded the Pe\u00f1a Caballista Prize. Were you thrilled to receive this award?<\/strong>
\nI was very excited. I was born in Cordoba but I studied for my baccalaureate in Malaga. And recalling some verses by Antonio Machado:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

Man is neither from where he is born nor from where he dies, but from where he does his Baccalaureate. When I have gone to Jerez, Seville… with my Anglo-Arabian horses, there have been many people who have been very eager to join their affiliation. “You are from Seville”, “You are from Jerez”, “… from Cordoba”. I have always replied:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

“I’m from Malaga. “But you were born in C\u00f3rdoba”. And I replied: “It’s just that we from Malaga are born where we want to be born”. I am a Malaga native who was born in Cordoba. The best part of my life has happened in Malaga. And I am in love with Fuengirola. I have had the pleasure and honour of knowing your father personally (he is referring to the stockbreeder Salvador Cort\u00e9s Garc\u00eda) and all the people who have been famous in the horse world in Fuengirola. I have known that fair of the 80’s. I have known the fervour and passion that that fair generated. For me, being in Fuengirola is a gift. To feel loved by the fans and the people of the horse world of Fuengirola is a gift that is more a consequence of your generosity than of my merits.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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After a long struggle, you sold the San Miguel stud farm. Have you felt a certain liberation with the current situation?<\/strong>
\nMore than using the term liberation, which in the end it is, what I have felt is sorrow. It is something very beautiful, very passionate, that demands a lot of dedication. They say that everything has a beginning and an end. Mine has come and I can tell you about it. I have been liberated. But deep down, as it is a culture that I love and with which I am tremendously respectful, it makes me sad that society has turned its back on it. There is a perversion in the scales of values. We have a society that does not know where it is going. It confuses love with desire. It mixes the filial relationship between humans with the filial relationship with irrational animals. I think it is a mental perversion for someone to say that they are in love with a dog. One cannot feel pity, as the famous philosopher Frank Wolff said: “What goes through a man’s mind when, in a situation of danger to another man, he allies himself with the animal? He does not feel sorry for his fellow man, but for the animal that is attacking another human being. When someone feels sorry for an animal rather than for another human being, he has a mental problem.<\/p>\n

Do you think bullfighting will succeed?<\/strong>
\nAfter ten years, I have seen that it is a sector that will gradually disappear because society is no longer interested in it. This is not being catastrophic or pessimistic. It is realism. A bullfighter is not the reference point in any media. A bullfighting spectacle, with all its beauty and grandeur, is not understood. We have not been able to explain it. We have created a culture in which all living beings are equal, so we enter into contradictions. I feel sorry for the sector.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the pandemic has aggravated the situation…<\/strong>
\nThe pandemic is the perfect excuse to strangle bullfighting even more. They have not given aid to all the professionals in the bullfighting sector (banderilleros, picadors, sword fighters, aid…) as their activity has been suspended. The State Public Employment Service (SEPE) has not facilitated access to aid to professionals who pay their social security, their VAT… as if they were stinking people. This is a disease of our government. This is the pitiful thing. The pandemic is the perfect excuse. I’m not going to ban you but I’m going to punch you in the legs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

legs so you can’t get up. I don’t kill you but I let you suffer. This is what is happening in the world of bullfighting.<\/p>\n

Changing the subject, what I’m sure you are proud of is your five children?<\/strong>
\nI feel tremendously proud. Two daughters and three sons. All very good students. Obviously, knowledge doesn’t take up space. It takes time but it doesn’t take place. And that time always has its benefit. Being a cultivated person is important for getting around in the world. What really gives you a place is your education. It’s not your purchasing power, your clothes. It’s your culture that gives you a place,<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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