Corralejas in Sabanalarga leave three dead and 20 injured

By Victor Ovalle Gil
It was the first time that William Enoch Solaez Mojica dare get into the ring in the corralejas. He did it to pick up a bag of potato chips that someone had thrown a large audience, and a neglect was gored in the abdomen by a bull.
The 20-year-old was one of the three people who left the festivities of the Virgen de las Mercedes Sabanalarga, which began Thursday and ended yesterday.
Accompanied by several friends, Solaez left his home Saturday in Bethlehem Village neighborhood of the municipality, not tell his parents he was going to watch the spectacle of bullfighting, because they are evangelicals disagree with such of festivities.
At 3:30 p.m. was wounded and immediately taken to the Hospital Departmental Sabanalarga. Its horns pierced the intestines, so he underwent a complicated surgery. Twelve hours later he died.
Sunday tragic
Within an hour two people were seriously injured Sunday, and then died, after being rammed by the bulls.
The first was Rolong Dagoberto Enrique Castro, 45, who traveled from Galapa with his wife and two daughters to attend corralejas.
At 4 pm, the motorcycle taxi driver sat on the stage and began to kick the animal. Suddenly lost his balance and fell into the sand, where he was gored in the chest, tells his son Edwin Macias.
The wound punctured an artery and did not manage to come alive to hospital, where an hour later he entered delicate health market Ángel María Rodríguez, 49.
He had put the ring in a drunken state and was easy prey for the furious animal, he slammed one of his long, sharp horns on the abdomen. The scene was the most shocking of corralejas because the victim was with the innards out.
Despite the efforts of doctors to save his life, died after surgery that lasted four hours.
Trauma care
Of the 20 people who were injured in the corralejas three were sent to clinics Barranquilla: Jain Villa Hidalgo, Gilberto López Salas Cesar Palacio and Altamiranda.
The first two were broken collarbone after being trampled by bulls, while the latter has a deep wound in the abdomen.

COURT ENDORSES corralejas
Regarding the balance of the corralejas unfortunate, Sabanalarga mayor, Carlos Roca Roa, he told the Herald that the order of the Constitutional Court can not refuse permission for such celebrations.
"The board hosting the festivities warns people not to get into the ring, because that there are people ready, as manteros and garrocheros. It is very difficult to control the situation, many admitted to drunk. "