Please enable JavaScript to access this page.
Breaking News

How the discovery of a mass grave sparked uproar over the missing in Mexico | Crime News

Since the revelation on March 5, the Mexican media has published a wave of certificates from those who claim to have survived or escaped from Rancho Isaguire.

Many of those who moved forward chose to remain unknown. They got to know that they are poor young men from Guadalakara and explained that they were lured on the farm through the wrong promises to work in advertisements online – or simply kidnapping.

One of the young man said that the farm was described as a “killer school.” Those who complained, interrogated the orders of the Cartel leader or failed to pass the brutal tests.

“One of the survivors was” a small school of terrorism. “

The protester lights up candles next to the shoes that symbolize the missing of Mexico in Zokalo Square
The protester shines a candle next to the shoes that represent the lost Mexico on March 15th [Jared Olson/Al Jazeera]

Other documents appeared indicating that the local authorities may have been known to the site but have failed to act.

On March 12, the Mexican Dawa Group against Corruption and Punishment published a report showing that members of the National Guard discovered burned bodies in the same area in August 2019.

She also found that the local police commissioner sent the National Guard in March 2020, where it revealed a job to try to bribe.

According to the internal document, an unknown manager said that the National Guard employees “will be granted an amount of money” in return “to reduce the severity of operations” in the region.

Gallisco has the highest official rate of enforced disappearance in Mexico. Since the government began collecting statistics on the disappearance resources in the fifties, more than 15,000 people were reported to be missing in the state alone.

In the wake of the last uproar, the state prosecutor, Salvador Gonzalez de Los Santos, said that heavy machines were published on the Tichitlan site, but the area was very large so that it could not be fully searched.

This prompted the federal government to direct the finger to the local authorities for completely investigating it.

“They failed to track the evidence or determine anything that was found on this site,” Mexico Public Prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Maniro said at a press conference on March 19. “No complete examination of the site has been performed, and fingerprints were not performed.”

A woman bears a sign of reading,
A woman in the city of Mexico bearing a sign protesting “collective graves, extermination and slavery centers” [Jared Olson/Al Jazeera]

A day later, on March 20, the federal and state authorities organized a tour of the site for journalists, officials and brigades research. More than 12 buses have arrived, some of which have social media effects.

But the visit was widely criticized, not the least of which is allowing the public to reach the ongoing crime scene.

The family members also asked the reason why the influencers were allowed to reach the farm before that. Some influencers later posted accounts on the Internet as they deny the presence of the Holocaust on the site.

Meanwhile, President Shinbom has appointed federal prosecutors – led by Gertz Maniro – to take over the case.

She said: “The first thing we have to do is the investigation, because the pictures are painful, and the first thing we need to know is what happened there, before anything else.”

However, some critics fear that the federal authorities cannot be trusted to lead the investigation. The National Guard was created, after all, in 2019 under the leadership of former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the teacher of Shinbaum.

However, on Monday, the federal authorities announced their progress.

They confirmed that they had detained a recruiter for Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación in the low -income neighborhood of Mexico City, where he claimed that he sought to bring young people to the “extermination site”.

Two former police officers were also arrested from a village near Tuchitlan regarding the farm.

But academics and journalists investigations suggested that the farm in Tetuchitlan is part of a vast archipelago of the hills training centers to West Guadalajara.

The problem is not limited to one state: On March 12, a separate search brigade said it had discovered another “extermination site”, this time in Renosa, Tamolibas.

Police stands out of the National Palace in Mexico City, the riots drawn up with the word with the word
Police stands a guard around the National Palace in Mexico, where the protests are revealed on March 15th [Jared Olson/Al Jazeera]

In the recent protest at Zócalo, tensions began to boil with the fall of the evening. Some demonstrators penetrated the barricades and were charged with the police with riot shields in front of the National Palace.

“Mercenaries! The killers!” They shouted towards the palace, the official residence of the President of Mexico.

Sebastian Arenas, a student of journalism from the Independent National University of Mexico, explained that many of his fellow demonstrators saw that Tuchitlan indicates a federal security strategy that allowed mass killing.

“In the press, it is said that things have changed in Mexico, or that there is no disappearance, or that it is declining, and that judicial reform will achieve justice,” he said to the island of the island.

“But these are the results: a secret grave, which is an extermination camp that resembles Auschwitz.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250315_1802550-1-1742603571.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

2025-03-26 16:53:00

Related Articles

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Back to top button