The little girl wailed in terror. The little boy grasped for his chest. The women fought, desperately, to keep themselves from collapsing. The mother ran in circles, frantically, in search of what appeared to be her missing daughter, screaming in panic.
All had come to see a soccer game Sunday night at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
They and 65,000 others had paid hundreds, if not thousands of dollars — most of it to CONMEBOL, the organizer of this Copa América — for tickets.
And CONMEBOL, with tens of millions in revenue banked, failed, utterly, shambolically, to keep them safe.