Kicking and screaming: protests at World Cup

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  And I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, tax in space and will India's elite tighten their belts?

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  But first.

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  When the whistle blows today for the first match of the World Cup, millions of people will be watching.

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  But it won't just be football fans flocking to the great stadium in Mexico City.

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  In recent weeks, there have been giant protests there over the country's 130,000 missing people.

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  Demonstrators are taking advantage of that rare international audience to draw attention to their cause.

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  The Mexican government had hoped the tournament would be a chance to show itself

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  as a hub for technology, innovation, and foreign investment.

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  Now there's a more basic question: can it keep all those eyeballs on the beautiful game?

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  This World Cup is going to be the most watched sporting event ever.

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  There's going to be 104 matches spread across 16 different cities in three countries.

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  That's the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

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  Hal Hodson is The Economist's Americas editor.

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  The US is going to have 78 matches and Canada and Mexico are going to have 13 each.

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  And in Mexico, the matches are going to be hosted in Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Mexico City.

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  Mexico's hosting schedule is attracting particular attention, not necessarily the good kind.

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