The Mexican Attorney General reported misconduct on Wednesday in an investigation by state officials. Looking for relatives I found bones and hundreds of clothing and other personal belongings.
As some local media have called it, the “horror ranch” was discovered by authorities in September 2024 in the town of Teucitlan, on the outskirts of Guadalajara. Six months later, a so-called search group was discovered. Burnt bone fragments and personal itemsposes questions regarding the original investigation by the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office.
Attorney General Alejandro Görtz Manelo, who took over the investigation last week, said Jalisco investigators were unable to register evidence, fingerprints and process vehicles found at the ranch, three of which were later stolen.
He said local governments did not investigate ranch ownership and failed to scientifically analyze the ranch location to understand whether it was being used as a crematorium. Investigators did not arrest local officials related to activities at the ranch, he said.
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Extensive evidence meant that “truths will come out” about the horrifying discoveries at a ranch in western Jalisco, Ghats Manelo told a news conference.
Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office called for a “full, independence, fair and transparent investigation” of obvious crimes.
Gertz Manero said federal prosecutors were not warned about the site, as was standard procedures, and held the state prosecutors accountable despite running operations on the site last year. There is still not enough information to confirm whether the ranch burned bodies or was used to train cartel members, he added.
Last week, the Jalisco Search Warriors Group shared images that shocked many people in the country who have long been used to news of cartel wars, forced loss disappears and government corruption. Images and videos showed dozens of shoes, piles of clothes, and what appeared to be fragments of human bones.
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Such groups have long risked their lives to seek answers on what happened to those who disappeared in the face of ramp-extensive immunity, 120,000 of Mexico’s 120,000 people.
Staying up and protesting It was held over the weekend for the victims of a suspected site.
Monday, a The video has been distributed It shows a masked heavily armed man who identified himself as a new generation of Jalisco cartel and read a statement questioning the motives of the searchers.
The Jalisco Cartel was one of the eight Latin American crime organizations of the US government Designated foreign terrorist organizations last month.
In recent months, multiple mass graves have been discovered in Mexico. At least in January 56 bodies have been found In a large, unmarked tomb in northern Mexico, it is not far from the border with the US.
a A large number of graves The discovery in the suburbs of Guadalajara last December includes dozens of dismembered body parts, including 24 bodies, authorities said. That same month, Mexican authorities said they had recovered the total 31 A state plagued by cartel violence from the Chiapas pit.
Groups looking for missing people Say it that drug trafficking cartels and other organized crime gangs can use ovens to incinerate victims and leave no trace.
Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.
