“… These are the Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco (Jalisco Search Warriors), a collective of families whose loved ones number among the 130,000 disappeared recorded by Mexico’s government, though experts believe the real number to be far higher. The vast majority are victims of narcoviolence. Since the beginning of last year, this group alone says it has found at least 350 bags of remains in the wasteland, backyards, and construction sites of Guadalajara. According to them, at least 22 shallow graves have been unearthed in the immediate vicinity of the Estadio Akron, host of four World Cup games, situated on open scrub to the city’s west. A further 270 bags were found in Las Agujas, just eight miles north. Many of the families of the disappeared say the presence of the World Cup is unwelcome while their sons and daughters remain unfound. …”
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