مصارعة الديوك تعاود نشاطها في الفيليبين
عاودت حلبات مصارعة الديكة في الفيليبين نشاطها بشكل كامل، بعد توقف قسري لعامين بسبب جائحة كوفيد-19، وانطلقت المنازلات في كل أنحاء الأرخبيل. وتتقاتل الديوك المزودة بمخالب معدنية اصطناعية على أرجلها حتى الموت، وسط هتافات المتفرجين.
Shut for two years during the Covid-19 pandemic,traditional cockfighting arenas are getting back to full capacity across the archipelago nation.
"As long as there's cockfighting and as long as I live, I will continue to play," Dennis de la Cruz, 64, says at a recent derby in San Pedro, a city south of Manila, where he falls one win short of the one-million-peso ($17,000) champion's pot.
Shut for two years during the Covid-19 pandemic,traditional cockfighting arenas are getting back to full capacity across the archipelago nation.
"As long as there's cockfighting and as long as I live, I will continue to play," Dennis de la Cruz, 64, says at a recent derby in San Pedro, a city south of Manila, where he falls one win short of the one-million-peso ($17,000) champion's pot.