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Doc Showcase: Mexico's Disappearing Legacy of Cockfighting

By David Schonauer   Friday October 2, 2015

Ixmiquilpan, Mexico, is one of the last places where "pelea de gallos"—or cockfighting—is legal. Abelardo Olguín Cuevas still practices the brutal pastime his grandfather taught him, even as growing controversy and declining interest threatens to make the sport he loves extinct. The short documentary El Porvenir, directed by Alfredo …

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