Mexico's Mazatlan is Getting Its Mojo Back Anne Z. Cooke and Steve Haggerty - McClatchy-Tribune
go to original June 10, 2013

Mazatlan TV Spot (gomazatlannow)

The atmosphere in the Plaza de Toros, hot in the afternoon sun, crackled like popcorn, leaving visitors wondering just how long the crowd, growing larger by the minute, would sit patiently and wait. But as late arrivals searched for the last free seats, their concerns melted away.

Suntanned cowboys in big-brimmed hats spotted distant friends and waved. Vendors selling beer worked the aisles and ladies spread sunscreen on their children. Clean-shaven men, eyes hidden behind black Ray-bans, shook hands and strangers compared notes on the afternoon's event, the Carnaval Week bull fight.

Weekly bull fights, a winter sport here in Mazatlan, on Mexico's Pacific Coast, run from Christmas through April. But the bull fight held during Carnaval, featuring world-famous "rejoneador," Pablo Hermosa de Mendoza, is the spectacle that packs the arena. Challenging the bull, the charismatic Hermosa and his horse - he travels with six trained Lusitanos - are super stars, leaping, dancing, and spinning, melding the crowd into a cheering, gasping, groaning, clapping, handkerchief-waving mass.

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