Mexico, World Cup revives pain of missing loved ones

Mexico, World Cup revives pain of missing loved ones describes how the return of the World Cup to Mexico is reopening grief for families still searching for disappeared relatives. In Ciudad Juárez, Reuters reports Norma Laguna’s daughter, Idaly Juache, vanished in 2010 at age 19 two days after playing a Sunday night match. Laguna keeps Juache’s orange jersey with the number 14 and says the tournament reminds her of the life her daughter should have lived. The article notes that about two years later a 10-centimeter piece of skull was found roughly 70 km away among remains of around 26 women and teenage girls, offering little closure. It also places the story within Mexico’s scale of disappearances—more than 135,000 since 2006—alongside criticism of bureaucracy and limited financial support.