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Mexican boy takes bull by horns
By Duncan Kennedy
BBC News, Mexico City

It has horns, weighs 400lbs (180kg) and does not like humans.

For most people that would be invitation enough to make one's excuses and leave.

But not Rafita Mirabal. When he is facing the bulls of Mexico he stands his ground. Even though he is only nine years old.

Rafita is believed to be the world's youngest-ever bullfighter - a miniature matador.

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He may not yet be in double digits so far as his age is concerned, but he has the kind of "I-am-the-king-of-the-ring" confidence of a fighter twice his age.

The difference with Rafita is that he does not kill the animal. And, for many, that seems to have an inherent attraction.

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