Puerto Rico will defy the U.S. government by adopting a law Wednesday to keep cockfighting alive
Cockfighting generates an estimated $18 million a year and employs some 27,000 people, according to the bill approved by Puerto Rico’s House and Senate. The island’s legislators had bristled at Trump’s move, noting in their bill that cockfights and betting on them have been “part of our culture and folklore ever since their introduction to Puerto Rico in the 17th century."
Sánchez said a ban would just drive the fights underground on an island mired in a 13-year recession and still struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria. Animal rights activists have long pushed to end cockfights in U.S. territories, saying they are cruel and noting they are illegal in all 50 U.S. states.
“They are widely exaggerating the economic value,” he said. “Watching animals slash each other just for human entertainment and gambling is not judged as a legitimate enterprise by mainstream people.”
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