The World Cup Kicks Off In Guadalajara Amid Resistance And Repression (opens in new tab)

When Guadalajara hosted the Pan American Games 15 years ago, former mayor Aristóteles Sandoval proposed a Human Relocation Plan to “clear the city center of unhoused people, window washers, and sex workers.” The proposal, heavily criticized, was dropped from the official discourse. But that didn’t prevent it from being carried out. Now, the same pattern [...]