El Toro de la Vega: The Shame of Spain, Saving Earth
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Last week, on Tuesday, September 14, 2010, residents of the Spanish town of Tordesillas celebrated a local annual festival, El Toro de la Vega, in which scores of men and boys on horseback and on foot chase down a bull and stab him to death.
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El Toro de la Vega: The Shame of Spain, Saving Earth
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El Toro de la Vega: The Shame of Spain, Saving Earth
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