The Mexican authorities have been left behind to try to find out what exactly happened on a two -hectare drug cartel 'Training Camp' that the 'Mexican Auschwitz' is called after disturbing photos have been posted online.
The images of Rancho Izaguirre in the western state Jalisco show hundreds of away shoes, backpacks, shirts and other items, according to the Los Angeles Times.
There were also pictures of charred bones, skulls, fingers, teeth, bullet omhing and clips of powerful guns, as well as handwritten submissions in a notebook – consisting of numbered columns of nicknames and a farewell letter that read: 'My love, if I don't come back one day, I ask you to remember. I love you. “
In a cylinder block building, there was a sanctuary for Santa Muerte, a female female saint whose cult is often associated with organized crime.
The horrible discovery was made last week when a search group called the Warrior -seekers of Jalisco decided to act on a tip in their search for loved ones who have disappeared to more than 120,000 '.
“It was a great shock,” said Raul Servin Garcia at the La Times. 'The first thought that comes to mind is to hope that no family member – a son, a husband, had ever been to this place, had once been tortured or killed.
'The sensation that runs through your body when you see hundreds and hundreds of shoes piled up cannot be described. And of course you imagine the worst.
Images of Rancho Izaguirre in the western state of Jalisco show hundreds of discarded shoes, backpacks, shirts and other items
Clothing remained spread from those killed on the site
There were handwritten entries in a notebook – consisting of numbered columns of nicknames and a farewell letter with the text: 'My dearest, if I don't come back one day, I only ask you to remember how much I love you'
“You see the clothing, the shoes and you can't control yourself,” said Servin, who was looking for the remains of his son, who disappeared at the age of 20 in 2018.
“The tears come across your eyes just thinking about the suffering that those poor people have endured,” he said. “One can only pray to God that your loved one was not in that place.”
It remains unclear exactly how many people were killed on the site in Teuchitlan, just 37 miles from the center of Guadalajara – the second largest city in Mexico.
But researchers now believe that the ranch was used as a 'tactical' training area and a physical conditioning zone, together with cemeteries, for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel – one of the most important and most violent crime syndicates in Mexico.
Photos of one area even showed an obstacle course, made of threads that were stuck on tribes and another site with tires along the ground.
The group probably recruited young men from a bus station in a suburb of Guadalajara.
“They met these young people at the bus station with fake promises of work,” Servin explained. “Many had no idea what they started.”
Everyone who tried to escape or not with the physical training with death was measured, according to Indira Navarro, the head of the searchers' collective.
Mexican national guards agents arrive in Izaguirre Ranch where skeleton -like remains were discovered in Teuchitlan, Jalisco State
Authorities had already attacked the training camp in September when they found one body
Authorities did not find any other bodies at the time, where search crews now wondered how they could discover what federal agents could not
The ranch is located in Teuchitlan, just 37 miles from the center of Guadalajara – the second largest city in Mexico
One of the anonymous survivors even told her that prisoners were sometimes forced to kill their colleagues, Navarro said in a radio interview.
Recrests were also forced to dig holes and then build improvised ovens from bricks and stones, according to the Washington Post.
The office of the Jalisco State attorney says that researchers have now found six groups of charred human bones, some of which were buried underground or hidden in bricks.
Forensic teams have not yet identified any of the deceased.
In an attempt to match the items on the ranch with the thousands of missing people, prosecutors have released photos of almost 500 personal effects such as jeans, t-shirts, blouses, skirts, backpacks and bags.
“We have received several phone calls from families who say:” I think that was my son's t-shirt, “said Servin. “But we have to tell them:” Stay calm. Text don't like conclusions. ” Because it is very difficult to think that your loved one was killed in this way or such in -depth pain continued. '
In the meantime, the national and federal authorities continue to investigate, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters on Thursday.
“We have some isolated photos, but we don't know exactly what was found, how it was found,” she said.
“We must determine responsibilities based on the information and research.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters the state and the federal authorities continue to investigate
But the office of the Federal Attorney General has taken the lead in the study, Jalisco Gov. Pablo Lemus announced on Wednesday when the attorney -general Alejandro Gertz Manero of Mexico suggested that there might have been collusion between the cartel and the local officials.
He told Reporters It was “not credible” that a “situation of this nature was not known to the local authorities.”
In fact, it was revealed that the National Guard arrived last September Rancho Izaguirre, but state officials did not succeed in following aggressively with the raid.
Salvador Gonzalez de Los Santos, the Attorney General, said that 10 government workers combed the site at the time with the help of back cover and dogs.
They arrested 10 suspects who remain in custody, although it is unclear which charges they are confronted with.
Researchers also found a body wrapped in plastic and freed two prisoners, including the author of the love letter/last will found in the notebook, who is now at home.
Forensic technicians classify items discovered in a room on a ranch that is part of the crime scene where a mass grave was found in the western state of Jalisco
In an attempt to match the items on the ranch with the thousands of missing people, prosecutors have released photos of almost 500 personal effects such as jeans, t-shirts, blouses, skirts, backpacks and bags
But they found no other bodies, with the Los Santos noticed that they “couldn't investigate the entire ranch” because it was too big.
Nevertheless, the civil seekers could find the mass graves by simply putting metal bars in the ground and smelling the tops to detect the smell of resolutive bodies – so Navarro was asked how state researchers with technology and training could have found what her group did “with a photo, crooked and metal bar.”
The state authorities now admit that their earlier efforts were 'insufficient' and suffered from 'possible omissions' that are now being investigated.
Yet they insist that there have been no criminal activities on the ranch since September. It is said to have been active since at least 2018.
