Overview
- Civil-society organizations including Salud Justa, RASA and Voces Jóvenes held a public meeting in Mexico City to demand a national policy on alcohol after five people died during street celebrations for Mexico’s World Cup win over Ecuador.
- The Mexico City health secretary, Nadine Gasman, confirmed five fatalities and reported 3,563 medical attendances and 93 urgent transfers from the event but did not detail the circumstances of the fifth death.
- Groups said they are not calling for a total ban but want regulation to limit availability, curb advertising and stop treating fandom as tied to drinking.
- RASA and other activists called temporary local measures such as the 'ley seca' insufficient, and experts at the press conference urged taxes and tighter sales rules to reduce industry-driven consumption.
- Advocates warned that normalizing alcohol at mass events fuels wider harms, including road incidents and gendered violence, and said host cities had years to plan better public-safety measures for the World Cup.