"In Guadalajara, the road to the World Cup is paved with erasure of the missing. The city of Guadalajara in Mexico is scheduled to host four World Cup matches next year, and labourers are working around the clock to revamp infrastructure in time for the tournament. On account of frenzied construction, the city's roads are presently a bona fide mess, constituting a perpetual headache for those who must transit them."
"But Guadalajara has a much bigger problem than traffic. The metropolis is the capital of the western state of Jalisco, which happens to possess the highest number of disappeared people in all of Mexico. The official tally of Jalisco's disappeared is close to 16,000, out of a total of more than 130,000 countrywide. However, the frequent reluctance of family members to report missing persons for fear of retribution means the true toll is undoubtedly higher."
Guadalajara will host four World Cup matches next year, prompting intensive infrastructure work and widespread road chaos. Jalisco has the highest number of disappeared people in Mexico, with an official count near 16,000 and a national total exceeding 130,000, while underreporting due to fear likely raises the true toll. Local authorities are moving to sanitise Guadalajara’s image, including threats to remove portraits and signs from the central roundabout commemorating the disappeared, an action that would effectively re-disappear those public remembrances. Posters of missing people appear across poles, planters and on the monument itself, featuring names and last-seen dates.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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