Last week, the collective Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco made public the discovery of three clandestine "hornos" in a site that has been described as a "concentration and training camp" for drug trafficking. The searchers found remains of charred and crushed human bones, more than 200 pairs of shoes, and hundreds of pieces of clothing and personal items.
According to the State Attorney, Salvador González de los Santos, this place had previously been discovered by the National Guard and was under the custody of the authorities. In the operation in September 2024, 10 people were arrested and two who were deprived of their liberty were released.
The State Attorney's Office has been classifying hundreds of pieces of clothing and personal items found to carry out a detailed forensic analysis. Thanks to the identification of belongings like shoes, backpacks, suitcases, and personal documents, families of victims have been able to identify some of their loved ones' belongings at the ranch in Teuchitlán, Jalisco.
Bone remains and more than 500 clues have been found in four locations on the Izaguirre ranch, where it is presumed that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) operated. Testimonies from survivors reveal that the place operated as a training and extermination point for the cartel for at least three years.
Among the identified victims is a young man named Eduardo Lerma Nito, originally from Guanajuato and residing in San Juan de los Lagos. Family members and search groups have begun to identify the first victims of the training and "extermination" camp in Teuchitlán, Jalisco. One of the identified victims is known as 'La China,' whose photo in a locket was recognized on Facebook.
In a notebook found at the Izaguirre ranch, a message written by another young person was discovered, which read: "My love, if one day I no longer return, I only ask you to remember how much I love you and say: my spoiled, tantrum-throwing, and jealous one has left me. May God keep you in His Holy Glory." People were recruited under false job offers and taken to the site where they were subjected to training and, in case of error, murdered.
User Myriam Hernández mentioned in a post that one of the victims was the mother of a child. Indira Navarro from Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco recounted how hitmen recruited young people by misleading them with supposedly attractive job offers, only to subject them to inhumane conditions in the training and extermination camp of the CJNG in Teuchitlán, Jalisco.
