Under the name of Jalisco seek warriorsthis group, formed in 2024, It is a group of search of missing persons in that Mexican state whipped by violence and organized crime.
“People send us messages and we have to go, because we cannot keep the doubt,” says Raúl Servín García, one of the members of that group A BBC News World.
His Official Facebook profile It is upholstered with faces: the faces of those who have disappeared and that they try to locate. “Help us know about your whereabouts, your family is desperate for not knowing anything about him!” Every interaction with the group will be totally anonymous.
And, according to the representative of the collective, Indira Navarro, in a Interview for CNN: “People have more confidence in groups than in the same authorities.”
Case of “training and extermination” at the Izaguirre Rancho
Anonymous calls were frequent: they warned that, near Teuchitlán, in Jalisco, Mexico, they would find something. Alerts denounced that there was a land called Rancho Izaguirrein which there was criminal activity, and this group had to go there to investigate.
A rectangular terrain, with light constructions and surrounded by perimeter walls, in the midst of farmland, is, in broad strokes, the description of the place where suitcases, shoes, clothing, a farewell letter, photographs, bone remains and clandestine graves were found. However, the number of deaths has not yet been determined.
With a group of about 40 people, they reached the ranch, located one hour from the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco.
They knew that, six months before, in September 2024, in that same place there was a confrontation between the Mexican National Guard and criminals, and that the local prosecution conducted some investigations. However, they did not locate the remains of the victims that the collective did.
“The place had no cordoning ribbons, or government stamps, or chains or locks. We play it, really. Because there could be armed people inside…. But fortunately there was no one, ”explains Servín.
“No one had entered such a place. We had entered places that were security houses, but not training, not extermination,” Navarro told AFP.
According to the indications, This place was employed by members of organized crime, in an area controlled by the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG)to recruit and train young people who would join their commands.
“From the beginning we find clothes, mounds of clothing, a lot of clothes. We found footwear, that this was something that went viral, because they compared it with some photos of antiquity, wars, extermination sites. This really was a site of extermination, recruitment and extermination, because there they ended the life of people,” Navarro explained.
In the place they also found notebooks with the lists of nicknames and an identification, in addition to almost a hundred bullet caps.
They are handled over names, commands are the bosses, support who cared for recruits. Rancho Izaguirre Recruitment and extermination site. pic.twitter.com/n9gxqrbziq
– Jalisco seek warriors (@guerrerosjalisc) March 8, 2025
Thanks to the experience that the group has in other search sites, they gave themselves the task of digging to see if there were other fatalities, and it was there that they located the bone remains, some with traces of calcining.
The Jalisco’s missing search engine group has also indicated that there is evidence that this place was used as an organized crime recruitment site, in which young people were attracted to false employment offers.
Other findings of Jalisco’s seek warriors
This has not been the only finding of this group, since, since its creation, they have helped to locate more than 70 bodies between January and December 2024.
Most of the members of this group have lost children, brothers, parents or friends, and fight to find them.
Collection of graves, crematoriums and bodies located by our group in Jalisco.
Total: 30 graves
3 crematoriums pic.twitter.com/uqlelpveku– Jalisco seek warriors (@guerrerosjalisc) January 21, 2025
