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(3 Nov 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Zapopan, Mexico - 14 October 2025
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1. Wide of fans arriving at stadium for soccer match between Mexico and Ecuador
2. Various of security checks at stadium
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Patricio Villarreal, Mexican soccer fan:
"I see it as a challenge, but I feel like the government is going to make some kind of deal with the narcos or something like that to see what happens."
4. Police walking outside stadium
5. Police on horseback outside stadium
6. Police officer checking bomb disposal robot
7. Surveillance monitor showing live security feeds and facial recognition system
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Johana Jaramillo, event producer working at fan zone:
"These moments and these events also help a little to repair a bit of that social pain and maybe also provide an opportunity to have better (security) measures simply because they’re going to host a lot of people."

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Guadalajara, Mexico - 13 October 2025
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9. Traditional carriages moving in square; banners of missing people in foreground

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Zapopan, Mexico - 14 October 2025
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10. Aerial of Akron stadium ++MUTE++

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Zapopan, Mexico - 15 October 2025
11. Workers monitoring screen showing surveillance camera feeds across city
12. Screen showing surveillance camera feeds
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Roberto Alarcón Estrada, Jalisco’s security strategy coordinator:
"The same authorities who, as I said, are directly confronting them (cartels), have also upgraded their equipment, weapons, and defense systems in order to be on equal footing with organized crime."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Zapopan, Mexico - 16 October 2025
14. Aerial of Akron stadium ++MUTE++

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Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos, Mexico - 14 October 2025
15. Various of volunteers digging up abandoned house patio in search of missing people
16. Volunteers holding hands while praying UPSOUND (Spanish): "Thank you Lord for allowing us to begin another search for all our lost treasures (loved ones)."
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Indira Navarro, member of the Jalisco Search Warriors:
"They’re trying to clean up Jalisco’s image when it comes to the disappearances. It’s a real mockery for us, the victims, and more so because we do the work. They want to wash away everything that has to do with the issue of the disappeared, but they won’t be able to because we’re going to continue fighting."
18. Various of volunteers digging

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Guadalajara, Mexico - 13 October 2025
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19. People walking past FIFA World Cup countdown clock
20. People by countdown clock
21. Police vehicle patrolling square

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Tlaquepaque, Mexico - 16 October 2025
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22. Sign warning against forced recruitment by cartels, reading (Spanish): "Recruitment is not a job offer. It’s a trap. Organized crime disguises itself as job opportunities. Don’t risk your life or your family’s peace of mind. Get informed, protect yourself, and choose a safe future."
STORYLINE:
Fans flocking to a soccer match at a stadium a few miles away, south of Guadalajara, shout “Mexico! Mexico!” walked by dozens of pollice officers, bomb-sniffing dogs, metal detectors under the unblinking stare of surveillance cameras as authorities work to fine-tune their measures ahead of next year’s World Cup matches.


It’s a jarring contrast of modern Mexico especially present in the western state of Jalisco where soccer stadiums coexist with some of the world’s most powerful criminal organizations.



















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