The collective 'Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco' reported that the Izaguirre ranch, in the municipality of Teuchitlán, Jalisco, is completely abandoned, despite having been intervened by federal authorities after the discovery of more than 400 pairs of shoes and garments in March 2024. 'The ranch is totally abandoned,' stated Raúl Servín, a spokesperson for the collective, in an interview with Aristegui Noticias. He pointed out that recent images taken with a drone show the property without active forensic work, overgrown with weeds and with no signs of official intervention. However, he said that the place remains under the custody of the National Guard. The spokesperson explained that the images of the current conditions of the ranch were captured by a collaborator who flew over the area. 'A companion did us the favor of flying the drone and passed us the footage, and that's how we realized the state of the ranch.' According to Servín, the abandonment is not recent; he mentioned that the Attorney General's Office (FGR) left unfinished work several months ago and that last year's rains would have been used as a justification to suspend the proceedings. 'Since the rains last year, they have used that as an excuse to stop working.' For the spokesperson, this evidences a lack of institutional activity, and he showed photographs of what he said: 'if there were work, the land would be cleared in some way, but it is not.' The statements came after the publication of a public communiqué addressed to President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, in which 'Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco' affirmed that the Izaguirre Ranch 'was not just another ranch,' but a site where serious human rights violations were allegedly committed, including illegal deprivation of liberty and systematic killings. In the document, the collective stated that it had remained silent for months so as not to affect the investigations, but it accused the authorities of abandonment, omissions, and a lack of real progress. They also denounced the insufficient number of searches and lines of investigation that, they claim, were never exhausted. The communiqué warns of alleged information leaks from the FGR to organized crime, which would have allowed detained persons to challenge their processes, with the risk of being released. Additionally, the collective denounced the repeated denial of access to the investigation file and pointed to the director of the Missing Persons area, Ricardo Flores, for alleged omissions, an issue for which they claim to have filed formal complaints. 'Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco' also alerted that key witnesses in the case were not heard and that some had to leave the country out of fear of reprisals, which they qualified as an abandonment by the Mexican state. Finally, the collective asked for the direct intervention of President Sheinbaum to prevent the case from going unpunished. 'We don't want the truth to be buried,' they stated, and warned that while the ranch remains unattended, disappearances and the recruitment of young people continue.
