Jalisco’s Guerreros Relevant Guerreros Collective found three clandestine crematoriums, in addition to carbonized and crushed bone remains, hundreds of shoes and clothing on a property in the municipality of Teuchitlán, Jalisco, west of Mexico. It is presumed that the place is linked to one of the drug trafficking cartels.
The finding was informed by the collective through social networks: “This is part of the Izaguirre farm in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, where the recruitment concentration camp of young people is located, most of the central, and three cremates with burned bones are located. There are a lack of uncovering (graves), (there are packages of clothing, loaders, loaders, caps.
The group has shared in social networks various messages, photographs and videos about the discovery, which occurred last Wednesday. In his publications, he described the site as a “extermination and training field of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG)”.
In the place, activists also found personal objects, such as backpacks, wallets, handbags, suitcases, notebooks, documents, credentials, keychains, books and jewelry articles. In several images, photographs, books and notebooks are observed that allegedly belonged to missing people.
“These photos (and objects) found in the Teuchitlán ranch can be hope for a family. Dad or mom were found in the middle of a Bible (…) we hope it is shared and the family let us know if they continue in their search or if that person who loaded these photos is already at home,” said the collective in another message.
The members of the group indicated that what is shown so far is “just part of what is located in Teuchitlán” and that they are “waiting for us to be done to us with all these belongings”, in reference to the possible intervention of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) of Jalisco.
On Wednesday, the day of the finding, the group contacted the State Prosecutor’s Office, which sent agents and experts to the place. The authorities have continued the search for human remains on the site, where activists infer that people were forced.
That day, the state prosecutor, Salvador González, told the media that the property had already been inspected last September and justified that at that time there were no remains or objects, although there were some search works, because the place “was very large.”
At the end of January, Jalisco Security Forces located a camp in Teuchitlán where they rescued 38 people, 36 of them held against their will by hitmen of the CJNG.
Jalisco is the State of Mexico with the largest number of missing persons, with more than 15,000 cases registered between December 2018 and September 2024, according to data from the State Government and the State Registry of missing persons.