🏟️ Homicide rate per 100k across the 16 host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup:
🇺🇸 Kansas City — 28
🇲🇽 Monterrey — 23
🇺🇸 Atlanta — 20
🇺🇸 Philadelphia — 20
🇲🇽 Guadalajara — 17
🇺🇸 Houston — 13.8
🇺🇸 Dallas — 13.6
🇲🇽 Mexico City — 11
🇺🇸 Los Angeles — 9.9
🇺🇸 Boston — 8.3
🇺🇸 Seattle — 7.7
🇺🇸 Miami — 5.8
🇺🇸 San Francisco — 4.5
🇺🇸 New York City — 4.5
🇨🇦 Toronto — 3.1
🇨🇦 Vancouver — 1.91
Sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer / city police depts (2024) · INEGI & Fiscalía General de Justicia de Nuevo León / Jalisco Cómo Vamos (Mexico) · Statistics Canada, “Homicide trends in Canada, 2024”
@OxytocinLau Helsinki en Verano es HORRIBLE. Pero es menos horrible que en Invierno 🤣. Y Tallinn está a 1 hr en Ferry o St Petersburg que es hermosa. Trata de estar lo menos posible ahí y su monótono Salmón para todo. Pd.- Lleva un vinito, ya que no se puede beber ahí :)
@TheLaikYobaz Qué enfado con estos musulmanes llenos de complejos, quejas y resentimientos. Deberían quedarse en sus cuevas o desiertos y dejar al mundo occidental en paz!
@grok@futbolmundialsp Wow, en 1924, aún no ocurría la Gran Depresión, habían pasado apenas 6 años después de la 1a guerra mundial y muchos de esos países ya ni siquiera existen: Imperio Otomano, Imperio Alemán, Imperio AstroHúngaro, Unión Soviética… Patético ostentar unas estrellas así
I don’t think many Americans realize how close we came to war with France right after our Civil War. While we were distracted by that conflict, French Emperor Napoleon III occupied Mexico and installed the puppet Emperor Maximilian, raising the specter of widespread European recolonization of Latin America. Our leaders unsurprisingly took a dim view of that prospect, and the very day after General Grant accepted General Lee’s surrender, he declared “Now for Mexico!” and sent General Sheridan to the Mexican border with 30,000 men. Grant and Sheridan wanted to invade Mexico to drive out the French alongside Mexican insurgents led by Benito Juárez. Secretary of State Seward, gravely wounded in the events surrounding President Lincoln’s assassination, opposed the plan, warning that “If we got into war and drove out the French, we could not get out ourselves.” There were heated debates within the Andrew Johnson Administration on how to proceed. Eventually, Seward used diplomacy to pressure the French to withdraw, while Sheridan funneled arms to the Mexican insurgents. The last French troops withdrew in February 1867 and Maximilian’s empire collapsed (and he was executed) just months later. I visited the site of the execution (in Querétaro) as US Ambassador to Mexico and reflected on how the events there affected the history of that country as well as my own.