In the midst of the hangover due to the discussion of tariffs, with medium Mexico looking towards the northern border, horror has taken discreetly through the center of the country. A group of relatives of missing persons has denounced these days the discovery of a crime extermination center, in Teuchitlán, a town just over an hour of Guadalajara, the state capital. In the ranch, with something more of half hectare, search engines have found crematorium ovens, graves, remains … An image has traveled social networks, a photo of hundreds of abandoned shoes, suggestion of the same amount of absences, people who could pass by.
It happens so many times in Mexico. , from a separated place, from a space outside the radar of the authorities. On the contrary. In September, the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office inspected the place, after the arrest of 10 people, and the rescue of two, kidnapped and retained in the ranch. The agency found there the lifeless body of a person, dozens of burned bone fragments, weapons, caps … already then, the authorities had the idea that that, in addition to an extermination center, had been a training field for recruits for the criminal group prevailing in the area, the Jalisco Nueva Generación poster (CJNG). But, for some reason, they stayed halfway.
The Rancho, known as La Estanzuela or Izaguirre, charged newly charged last week, when members of the Jalisco Warriors group collective arrived there, alerted by an anonymous call. It was not difficult for them to find evidence of horror, ignored in their day by the local prosecution. The group has reported its findings every day, hanging photos in its social media pages, the furnaces, the tennis, the remains … The case has arrived this Monday at the president’s morning press conference, Claudia Sheinbaum, which has described the issue of “terrible”, in addition to asking for an investigation of what happened. The president has opened the door for the Attorney General’s Office to attract the case.
Some media have also documented that criminals used this space as a training field for their recruits, in many cases young in search of work, who came there deceived, forced to become cheap labor for the criminal group. In one of the cases, shared by Reforma young man who saw the publications of Warriors seekers and recognized the ranch, where he had been kidnapped, long ago. He says he arrived there when he answered a work ad that he saw at the Tlaquepaque bus center, in the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
The forced recruitment of young people by organized crime in that area of Jalisco has been known for more than a decade. In 2019, the country reported the case of several victims, contacted in the same way, through false work ads, in 2017. The victims were summoned to training days in Tala, neighboring town of Teuchitlán, with the promise of a payment of 4,000 pesos, about $ 200. The criminal group picked them up and led them to the place in question, but, once there, subjected them to a quasi -military regime, with the aim of integrating them into their structure. Any complaint was settled with death.
Luis, one of the recruited, managed to escape and gave his testimony, after the authorities broke into the training and extermination field. “All day we exercised and said that, who obeyed, they went on vacation or rest. We were classified by new, semi -new and old. The new ones hit all the time, there were always armed men watching (…) we couldn’t sleep until 12 at night, who did it to find him with gotcha Or they killed him. Those who took care of two shot at two because they went to Oxxo without permission, ”he explained.
The case of Tala was only the last of several, concentration and extermination fields of the CJNG, installed in villages on the route between Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, municipalities such as Tala, Teuchitlán, Ameca, Ahuisculco, the Sierra de Talpa … the discovery now of a new field interpellates the authorities, not only by the failed operations of September, but for the tranquility of the crime to take entire regions of the crime. use them at discretion for horror. The explanation, when they give it, is as discouraging as the same reality. Last week, the Jalisco prosecutor justified the lack of thoroughness in the Izaguirre Rancho, because “it is quite large.”
The corridor between Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, particularly the municipalities that appear in the forest of spring, Tala, Ameca, Teuchitlán, etc., are territory of the CJNG for years. This was indicated by the Army, already in 2022, in public documents thanks to the massive hacking of the Guacamaya collective. In a document on the criminal panorama of Jalisco in that year, the Ministry of Defense indicated that the regions of Valles and Sierra Occidental were in charge of a lieutenant of the leader of the criminal group, Nemesio Oseguera, aka Mencho. This is Gonzalo Mendoza Gaytán, aka toad.
In the note that this newspaper published in 2019 on forced recruitment, one of the victims already mentioned the toad. The victim, named Luis, recalls the murder of 14 boys, by indication of his. His crime? That the toad thought they had said that they wanted to leave there. First they forced them to fight each other and kill those who fell. Then they murdered the rest. “To those who for fear we do not claim to want to go made us take the bodies,” says Luis. “We last an hour and a half because there were some very heavy ones, we had to drag them to throw them into the corn.” That is, incinerate them.
