Clowns, Acrobats March in Capitol Against City Ban on Circus Animals Mark Stevenson - The Associated Press
go to original June 10, 2014

MEXICO CITY — More than 1,000 acrobats, clowns and other circus employees marched through downtown Mexico City on Tuesday to protest a new ban on animals in circuses.

There can be no lions or tigers or bears — not even dogs or horses — in circus rings under a law passed without opposition in the city legislature Monday. Penalties include fines ranging from $45,000 to $60,000,

Circus performers say the law will leave both animals and humans unemployed.

"Hundreds of families are going to be out of work," said Julio Cesar Ramirez, 33, a blue-suited clown and fourth generation circus worker. "This is a tradition that goes back 250 years."

Holding signs reading "Mexico wants circuses with animals!" and "Circuses love their animals," ranks of clowns lined up while acrobats performed on truck-drawn trampolines and scantily-clad female performers sauntered along in feathered headdresses. They paraded plastic animal statues on flat-bed trucks, to show what the circus would look like without live animals.

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