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Inside Mexico's troubled 2026 World Cup: How 'the disappeared', deaths, poverty and protests are threatening to douse the hosts' blazing passion for the beautiful game

Daily Mail 1 min read 2 hours ago

For decades Mexicans have amused foreign visitors with a joke which as well as raising a guffaw puts the people's shoulder-shrugging acceptance of corruption here in Mexico City into ironic perspective.
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