Ecuador regularly has annual bullfighting. They notably occur in the country’s capital where people are finally calling for the need to stop due to the number of bulls killed each year for the entertainment of the public.

Ecuador approved a 2011 ballot question banning the killing of animals for entertainment.

The Quito festival has been put on yearly for the last 52 years, attracting top bullfighters and generating about $15 million in revenues over six days. This year's festival was scheduled to have begun on Dec. 1.

Organizers are pointing figures at the cancellation announced Friday on the killing ban and fervently oppose the form of entertainment which essentially tortures, painfully and slowly kills the animal.

Importantly, a surplus of 40 bulls were killed during past fights.

Bullfighting will most likely continue in smaller regions of Ecuadorean towns. Bulls will be killed in some and not in others, which will depend on how towns voted last year.