Senate President Gerardo Fernández Noroña criticized the way the Izaguirre ranch case in Teuchitlán is being discussed, where search collective families reported the discovery of clandestine crematories, human remains, clothing, footwear, and more indicators that the place was a training and extermination camp of a cartel in Jalisco.
In a video published on his YouTube account, Noroña accused that there is a campaign of intrigue about the disappeared by the right, after some opposition figures alleged a supposed responsibility of the government for the deaths at the Teuchitlán ranch. The senator pointed out that the government has nothing to do with the forced disappearance of people who were at the 'terror' ranch in Jalisco and that, on the contrary, the government is investigating the case.
"They have a truly horrendous, vile campaign, and they don't care about the victims or the victims' families; they use the issue. I have no reason to doubt it, but there is also... an investigation in progress," stated Noroña.
In an initial video posted on the afternoon of March 17, Noroña said regarding the Teuchitlán case that right-wing groups have taken the case of the supposed drug training camp to harm the image of the government of Claudia Sheinbaum. The legislator considered that having a missing child must be ‘driving one crazy’ and that it is a painful issue. Therefore, he deemed it "perverse" that the political right suggests that the Government of Mexico is responsible for the events occurring at the Izaguirre ranch.
"They have made the case of Teuchitlán, Jalisco, a truly scavenging campaign to attack the government of the companion president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. But who says that those shoes belong to missing persons, that what is being told is true? As is the hypocritical right," pointed out the senator.
Noroña expressed his respect for the families of the disappeared due to the situations they are living. On March 5, during a search day, the collective Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco entered the Izaguirre ranch in search of clues, after receiving an anonymous call from a survivor of the training camp, who provided them information about clandestine graves at the site. There, families found about 200 pairs of shoes, clothing, blankets, and various types of belongings.
Regarding this finding, Noroña referred in a video that these were presumptions. "It is a vile, infamous way. They have no interest in collaborating, contributing, assisting, backing, or seriously criticizing any actions that were being carried out; they want to profit, they want to use that pain and suffering to attack our government and our movement," affirmed the senator.
