It took 152 days since it was enacted for the controversial Animal Welfare Law to be published in the entity’s Official Newspaper (see official text). With this Law, it seems that the bullring of Cancun in Quintana Roo will not hold bullfights anymore.

The president of the Board of Directors of the XVI Legislature of the State of Quintana Roo, Gustavo Miranda Garcia, celebrated the publication of the Animal Welfare Law; he said that among other things it prohibits bullfights.

Miranda Garcia, highlighted the work done by the deputies of the last legislature that managed to approve the law, enacted on June 27, which definitively prohibits bullfighting and cockfighting, in addition to imposing greater penalties and protections against animal abuse.

“We are talking about a historical fact for the state of Quintana Roo; due to the importance of the content of this law and in which we work both the deputies of the past legislature and the current ones, to finally get it published in the Official Gazette,” the legislator said.

Finally, the also president of the Board of Directors, recalled that the law establishes that bullfights, as well as the killing of an animal or other acts of cruelty, are considered administrative infractions and obliges the authorities to stop these acts, proceeding to the closing and securing of the animals.