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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 06 > In New Mexico, forbidden sport continues to thrive

In New Mexico, forbidden sport continues to thrive

Cockfighting has been outlawed, but so far there’s been just one conviction

By Adam B. Ellick / The Bulletin
July 6, 2008

CHAPARRAL, N.M. — After two weeks of preparation, 150 officers, backed up by a helicopter, slipped into this sleepy desert town. Their focus was not illegal immigration or drug smuggling. It was cockfighting.

But when they raided what was billed as the Christmas Cockfighting Derby in....

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