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The career of eighteen-year-old Colombian torero Álvaro Múnera (known by the nickname El Pilarico) ended when he was gored by a bull during a bullfight in 1984, with the resultant spinal cord and cranial injuries leaving him paralyzed. Múnera has since become a council member in his hometown of Medellín, a position from which he advocates for the rights of the disabled and promotes anti-bullfighting campaigns. A widely circulated photograph displayed above purports to have captured Múnera at the very moment, in the middle of a bullfight, when he came to the realization that what he was doing was an injustice to animals and decided to henceforth campaign against bullfighting: Although Múnera did undergo such a conversion, this photograph doesn't depict the instant of his change of heart, for a number of reasons:
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