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With just under two months to go before the 2026 World Cup, one of the tournament’s host cities in Mexico is experiencing a worrying trend.
In Guadalajara, a city in Jalisco state plagued by drug violence and thousands of cases of disappeared people, residents are feeling increasingly unsafe.
Nine in 10 residents, or 90.2%, view the situation in the area as insecure, according to a national public safety survey published Friday by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
That’s up from 79.2% of those surveyed in December 2025, according to Inegi, which described the increase as a “statistically significant…

