From Social Media to City Streets, Mexico's 'Circus Wars' Are Heating Up Mark Stevenson - The Associated Press
go to original July 28, 2014

This video posted on social-media sites showed surprised motorists making quick maneuvers to avoid a galloping giraffe outside a circus in Monterrey. The owners accused animal-rights activists of opening the pen so the giraffe could escape. (LiveLeak)

MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s “circus wars” are heating up, with a growing movement to ban circus animals, meeting rising anger from circus workers.

There have been messages posted on social-networking sites urging people to attack circuses, Armando Cedeno, the head of the nation’s circus owners association, said at a demonstration by circus performers.

“We have a lot of threats on Facebook, with environmentalists urging people to go burn down circuses, which is very worrisome,” Cedeno said as he oversaw a protest in Mexico City’s main square at which circus entertainers put on a free show with horses and dogs - the only animals they will be allowed to use under a new city law banning acts with lions, tigers, elephants and other “wild” animals.

Aguascalientes state legislator Gilberto Gutierrez, a member of Mexico’s Green party, said violence has already been inflicted by the circus side.

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