The Attorney General and the Government of Mexico investigate the graves clandestine Located at the Izaguirre Rancho, in Teuchitlán, Jalisco. In addition, authorities enabled a link to help identify the victims.
Mexican authorities disseminate indications collected during the proceedings in the place; However, they clarify that the evidence They do not imply identity confirmation nor the condition of the possible victims.
The governor of JaliscoPablo Lemus, met on March 12 with people search organizations to inform about the Participation of the National Search Commission.
The Guerreros Searching collective found a alleged extermination center on March 5. The place had already been categorized in September 2024, after fighting between military and Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
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Findings on a Teuchitlán farm
In 2024, the authorities discovered that the place was a training center of the racketeering. In addition, they arrested a 10 armed people and released two kidnapped.
The Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office ensures that, at that time, He found bone remains with “thermal exposure”; But the group found more buried bones, hundreds of shoes and other objects.
The spokeswoman for the United Nations Human Rights Office, Liz Throssell, said the place was used by the Cartel to train young people Forcedly recruited by false job offers.
“They were subjected to brutal treatment and those who showed resistance or did not meet With the requirements of the cartel they were killed, which agrees with the presence of bone fragments and carbonized human remains in place, “he said in a pronouncement.
Official records claim that Jalisco is The Mexican State with more missing: between 15 thousand and 124 thousand.
Shoes, suitcases and notebooks
Ulises Ruiz, AFP photographer, said that, after receiving anonymous calls, search engines began with Excavations at the Izaguirre Rancho.
The group opened three holes where discovered burned bones, that for them were crematoriums.
In a construction, citizens found clothes – mostly women – as well as 400 pairs of shoes, suitcases, hygiene products and notebooks With annotations on weapons, purchases and a letter.
The finding of human remains in #Jalisco It demands thorough research and strengthening identification efforts. We urge to guarantee truth and justice for the families of people #Saidas well as to adopt effective protection measures. 👉🏽 … pic.twitter.com/vivjhzdzsy
-UN-DH Mexico (@onudhmexico) March 14, 2025
“My love, if one day I don’t return, I just ask you to remember how much I love you,” wrote a young man who would have been kidnapped in February 2024, but who, according to warriors seekers, returned with his family in October.
The state authorities located four spaces with human remainswhich is presumed would be clandestine crematoriums.
They also discovered Long arms cartridges, slices to practice and an altar of holy death.
Since October 2023, groups have reported the discovery of six alleged clandestine crematoriums in Jalisco.
In Bartolina, Tamaulipas, they have also Discovered clandestine graves between 2017 and 2021.
Sheinbaum and prosecutor Gertz
The attorney general, Alejandro Gertz, said that It is not credible that a situation of that nature would not have been known by local authorities.
“We have to see … if that really worked as a crematorium,” he added.
On March 14, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, promised that the Prosecutor’s Office will give all the information in the next few days about the alleged extermination field in Jalisco.
“On the Jalisco case, the week entering will give all the information. I asked the prosecutor to investigate the demarcation of responsibilities since September, when people were found there and stopped, to date, that this group of search engines enters,” said Sheinbaum.
The president has argued that the Prosecutor’s Office of Jalisco, governed by the political party opposing Citizen Movement, was in charge of the property after the operation in September, so it must be determined what he found in the place and what happened.