Madrid. - February 2012. - The campaign to promote bullfighting driven by Esperanza Aguirre, The President of the Community of Madrid, with the help of the Office for Bullfighting Affairs, include guided tours of the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas for groups of high school students. The Director General of Youth of the CAM, Guadalupe Bragado believes these viewings - or as she calls it these "paseíllos", "may help to recruit new fans" from among the young. Nothing is further from reality. The blog ‘La Trinchera” published in the online newspaper el Mundo.es’, collected the impressions of a group of boys and girls from a school of Alcorcón, near Madrid, who had been taken on the visit. Their comments included the word "murder" many more times than they did the word "art". Many described the visit as "boring" and, according to their teacher, the only part the students enjoyed was the escape from the routine of the classroom to visit Madrid.

For these young people, bullfighting is cruel and only "a tradition of ancient Spain and rich men." Young people today do not aspire to be bullfighters and have other concerns and interests, such as modern music and football. In contrast, the Director of Studies of the Marcet Foundation, which is dedicated to the training of football players, told the media that, no doubt due to the economic crisis, in the last year they have seen the number of their students triple.