ISLA VERDE, Puerto Rico - With cockfighting about to lose its last bastion in the United States, animal rights activists are training their sights on Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory where the blood sport is both beloved tradition and big business.
Cockfighting is illegal in 49 states, and the governor of Louisiana - the pastime's last U.S. refuge - signed a law Thursday that will make it a crime to fight birds beginning in August 2008. New Mexico banned the sport on June 15.
But Puerto Rico shows no signs of following suit: Cockfighting is so entrenched that the territory's legislature recently approved a bill establishing it as a "cultural right" of islanders.
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