At the end of the film Little Caesar, the gangster Enrico Bandello, played by Edward G. Robinson, is shot down by the police. As he dies in the gutter, he asks, "€œMother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"€ Reading that the Catalan provincial assembly decided last Wednesday to shoot itself in both feet, as well as gore itself in the thigh, by making bullfights illegal, I asked myself, "€œMadre de Dios, is this the end of the corrida?"€ In Catalonia, the argument was put in terms of the bull's anguish. Opponents of the ancient art of tauromachy were correct in stating that the toro ...