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February 9th -- the very last official day of La Candelaria. That's when Tlacotalpan throws a party, not for the visitors or tourists or TV cameras or dignitaries, but for itself. It's the “people’s party” -- and there'll be 3 more bulls on the streets.

One by one they were roped and dragged off their trailers and into a makeshift corral. They were already disoriented, cantankerous, pissed off, and ready for a fight.