The Community of Madrid promotes a bullfighting festival in Vistalegre for the victims of DANA: “They have lost their entire lives”

Nobody doubted it. The bullfighting capital will also turn to those affected by DANA. As ‘Mundotoro’ advances, the Community of Madrid, with Miguel Abellán as managing director of the Center for Bullfighting Affairs, has set to work to organize a festival in Vistalegre, the covered square and ideal for hosting a celebration this winter before Christmas and which, most likely, will be celebrated in the month of December. “From the presidency of the Community, with Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and from the Ministry of the Environment, with Carlos Novillo, a vocational firefighter, they have made all their means available,” says the Madrid bullfighter.

The grain of sand of the bullfighting people could not be missed, with bullfighters and ranchers dedicated to collaborating for the cause. And so it will materialize in a charity festival, in which tribute will be paid to the victims and funds will be raised for families “who have lost absolutely everything.” Abellán’s throat tightens every time he turns on the radio: “It’s the first thing I do very early, my heart sinks. “It is a monumental tragedy.” And he continues with an excited voice: «Now we speak more with our guts than with our heads, but it seems that many circumstances have failed, that we should have acted differently. “You have to put yourself in the situation of people who have lost family members, their house, their car, their memories, their clothes… Their entire lives.”

Like so many others, he says he doesn’t remember anything like this since the time of Covid. “This catastrophe is terrible.” And he makes a reflection: «When we lose a loved one, we have a funeral the next day and we try to get on with our lives. But there are many who have lived with corpses for several days, people who have not heard from their father or their son for a week. That’s horrible! Every story is a drama. How long will it take them to overcome it? The world they knew has been completely swept away.

For this reason, the bullfighting planet will offer its solidarity in a charity celebration in Madrid, the first of many that will be held, such as the one organized by José María Manzanares in Valencia, that of Manuel Amador in Albacete and those being studied in Zaragoza.