{"id":58311,"date":"2026-04-11T17:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/mexicos-police-focus-on-world-cup-while-thousands-remain-missing\/11\/04\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:03:52","slug":"mexicos-police-focus-on-world-cup-while-thousands-remain-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/mexicos-police-focus-on-world-cup-while-thousands-remain-missing\/11\/04\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s Police Focus on World Cup While Thousands Remain Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"site-content\">\n<div>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: <!-- -->Mexico\u2019s Police Focus on World Cup While Thousands Remain Missing<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"video-header\">\n<div class=\"css-1g7y0i5 e1drnplw0\"><button tabindex=\"100\" class=\"css-1rtlxy\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"close\"><svg width=\"60\" height=\"60\" viewbox=\"0 0 60 60\" fill=\"none\"><circle cx=\"30\" cy=\"30\" r=\"30\" fill=\"white\" fill-opacity=\"0.9\"\/><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M38.4844 20.1006L39.8986 21.5148L21.5138 39.8996L20.0996 38.4854L38.4844 20.1006Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M21.5156 20.1006L20.1014 21.5148L38.4862 39.8996L39.9004 38.4854L21.5156 20.1006Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-18ow4sz e1drnplw2\">\n<div aria-labelledby=\"modal-title\" role=\"region\">\n<header class=\"css-1bzlfz\">\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"css-1igvuto\"><span>Back<\/span><\/button><\/header>\n<div class=\"css-uzyn7p\">\n<div class=\"css-1vxywau\">\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Mexico\u2019s Police Focus on World Cup While Thousands Remain Missing<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Mexico\u2019s heavy security investment for the World Cup is drawing criticism from families of the disappeared, who argue the focus on safety for teams and fans ignores their search for missing loved ones.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<dl class=\"css-p98d0w\">\n<dt class=\"css-xx7kwh\"\/>\n<dd class=\"css-4gvq6l\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cWe\u2019re in a Black Hawk with Mexican police flying over Guadalajara\u2019s Akron Stadium. As Mexico prepares to host four World Cup matches here in June, it\u2019s pulling out the stops on security, deploying thousands more officers and beefing up surveillance. But here in the state of Jalisco, more than 16,000 people are missing or believed to be murdered by drug cartels, individuals, as well as corrupt police officers. And victims\u2019 families say the show of force for the World Cup does nothing to protect them or help find their loved ones. In February, this region erupted in violence after the military killed a powerful cartel leader. And now the government is trying hard to project a sense of security and order. Jalisco\u2019s secretary of security shows us some of their $55 million worth of new investments. Four of Ana Hatsumi Mu\u00f1oz\u2019s family members have disappeared or been killed. Her sister Virginia, a police officer, was last seen being taken by armed men in 2021. Ana is part of a collective called Guerreros Buscadores, or \u201cwarrior searchers.\u201d Today, they\u2019ve received an anonymous tip that the body of one of her nephews may have been burned and buried in this abandoned lot, not far from the Guadalajara airport. Each of these searchers has lost at least one family member. After two hours of digging, they found no clues. The government says it is targeting criminal groups behind disappearances. It recently freed several people from this kidnapper\u2019s hideout close to the Akron Stadium. Even so, the number of missing people keeps rising. But the job of finding missing people is still largely left to family members. While Mexico has a search commission, collectives often dig on their own, without police protection. Two days after we filmed with them, the collective unearthed a bag of human bones buried two and a half miles from the Guadalajara airport, where World Cup teams and fans will fly in. As with so many others discovered in recent years, it\u2019s unclear who this person was. The Jalisco prosecutor\u2019s office said they are investigating.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<header class=\"css-jgknzh\">\n<div class=\"css-1gn3fip\">\n<div class=\"css-p5izi2\">\n<div class=\"css-1h4tnhd\"><nyt-betamax class=\"css-j5i4vc\"><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/player-0.2.40-CnxAEwcy.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><nyt-betamax-cover><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/cover-0.2.40-eTrf0IGY.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><nyt-betamax-poster><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/poster-0.2.40-BdueiXaE.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><\/nyt-betamax-poster><\/nyt-betamax-cover><nyt-betamax-overlay-controls><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/overlay-controls-0.2.40-DTyJF-yz.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/scrubber-0.2.40-allGBXvP.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><\/nyt-betamax-overlay-controls><\/nyt-betamax><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1msb6m0\"><span class=\"css-hple31\">Mexico\u2019s heavy security investment for the World Cup is drawing criticism from families of the disappeared, who argue the focus on safety for teams and fans ignores their search for missing loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Brent McDonald, Souleyman Messalti, Miguel Tovar, Ben Laffin and Mark Boyer<\/p>\n<p>April 11, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/world\/americas\/100000010775303\/mexico-fifa-world-cup-security-disappeared.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Mexico&rsquo;s Police Focus on World Cup While Thousands Remain Missing transcript Back transcript Mexico&rsquo;s Police Focus on World Cup<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/mexicos-police-focus-on-world-cup-while-thousands-remain-missing\/11\/04\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/04\/04\/world\/americas\/E63AD4F0-576F-4BE2-8846-FAFF19EFBD55-20112-00000B173CC3BA66\/E63AD4F0-576F-4BE2-8846-FAFF19EFBD55-20112-00000B173CC3BA66-facebookJumbo.jpg?video-overlay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}