Mexico Keeps Discovering Human Remains Near World Cup Host Site In Guadalajara
There’s less than 200 days till the start of the World Cup this summer and organisers have been busy preparing the venues and infrastructure for games that will be played around the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Just one teeny, tiny cause for concern – Mexico can’t stop digging up human remains near Akron Stadium in Guadalajara, Jalisco:
In total, more than 456 bags containing human remains have been recovered from areas surrounding Akron Stadium since 2022. That’s a lot of human remains!
Now obviously we know that people go missing all the time in Mexico. One day they just disappear and are never seen by anyone ever again. That’s just part of the culture we need to embrace at this summer’s World Cup, same way we embraced Qatari culture last time out.
456 bags of human remains, though. How many bodies do you think that actually is? I have no idea how many body parts you can fit in one black bin liner, but 456 sure does sound like a terrifying amount. Surely there’s someone out there whose job it is to crunch the numbers on this sort of thing?
According to the Latin Times, José Raúl Servin García, a member of the local search collective said the latest discovery was made during construction work for a new housing development.
He added: “The government cares about money, not citizens. They even remove our missing persons posters so visitors do not notice the magnitude of the problem.
“They announce that the work is almost finished, but it is not true. They want to speed everything up so that when the World Cup arrives everything looks normal. We will keep working, with or without the World Cup, to bring to light whatever we find.”
Yikes. I’m not sure which countries have been selected to play the group stage matches at Akron Stadium in Guadalajara, but I’m sure they would prefer to play somewhere that doesn’t double up as a mass grave.
Not that there isn’t plenty of crime in LA, Toronto, Mexico City, and many of the other cities hosting World Cup games this summer, but something tells me these places don’t have hundreds/thousands of bags of decaying body parts scattered around their stadiums.
Roll on June 2026!
Meanwhile, Egypt is still trying to get FIFA to scrap their ‘Pride Match’ Vs Iran. It isn’t a World Cup without a whole bunch of PR disasters leading up to the event, is it?
