Hal Hodson

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Kicking and screaming: protests at World Cup · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

So that's what the Mexicans care about.

They're not really worried.

They don't think that gangsters are going to blow up the World Cup.

They think that any little thing like a drone mishap could bring more Trumpian attention down on their head.

heads and make their lives harder.

The latest seems to be that Trump has said that the Iranian football team can play matches that are scheduled to take place on American soil, but that they cannot stay overnight on American soil.

And so as a result of that, Claudia Sheinbaum has offered for the Iranian team to stay in Mexico overnight, to basically base itself out of Mexico and travel into the United States for its matches.

Which I can only imagine will presumably prove to be quite a difficult turnaround if they have matches in the afternoon and then they have to hightail it back over the border.

Uh makes for a rather strange wrinkle in their schedule.

Absolutely.

And the point we talked about earlier about the gangs is kind of demonstrative, right?

It's in almost everybody's interests for this to go really well.

Everybody stands to make a bit of money out of it.

Lots of people stand to have temporary jobs that will be important to them.

And for the the Mexican government, while the risk is that something happens that brings Trump down on their heads, the possible reward is that everything goes pretty well and Mexico

implicitly becomes a country that hosts World Cups with Canada and the United States, two rich developed countries, Mexico less rich, less developed, standing toe to toe with them organizing the biggest sporting event in the world.

Thanks for having me, Rosie.

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