Collectives of searchers and personnel from the Attorney General's Office of the Republic (FGR) returned to the Rancho Izaguirre in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, to learn about the progress in the investigations following the discovery in March 2025 of hundreds of garments and bone remains. The entry of the collectives was authorized by the FGR, as part of official work that continues on the land of the La Estanzuela community. Among the documented irregularities are failures in preserving the site, improper handling of evidence, and delays in forensic analysis. After the statement issued by @FGRMexico regarding Rancho Izaguirre, we share our public position. In it, we pointed out aspects that were not mentioned: statements made to the Attorney General's Office itself that refer to systematic murders committed at that location. Additionally, they indicated that in statements given to the FGR, there are testimonies that refer to how at that place “people were systematically murdered.” “That is why it deeply hurts to hear official versions that seem to minimize or fragment the truth of what happened,” they expressed. Similarly, they questioned the 64.44 percent progress reported by the FGR, stating that it corresponds only to surface work. The convoy, made up of eight vans, was escorted by elements of the National Guard. The visit occurs one month after the Attorney General presented the progress in the inquiries and search actions related to the case, a year after the discovery of a presumed 'extermination camp' allegedly operated by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). What has happened one year after the discovery of the Rancho Izaguirre? According to the report presented by the agency, it was “clearly and decisively” determined that the site was used as a training site where activities such as target practice, physical conditioning, and challenges were carried out. “In said training center, people were forcibly recruited, to whom their belongings, such as clothing, were stripped to be made to wear other types of clothing,” states the FGR communiqué. Likewise, they indicated that, based on meticulous work, relevant clues were located, such as fragments of bone remains, ballistic elements, clothing, and others that were not detailed. The Attorney General specified that these clues are processed and analyzed in the laboratories of the Federal Forensic Per Center, as well as in the regional sector based in the Federal Attorney General's Office of Jalisco. According to their complaint, since last July, the deep processing of the site has been halted. In parallel, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) issued a recommendation pointing omissions in the actions of state authorities in the Rancho Izaguirre case. “To date, there is a general progress of 64.44 percent in the comprehensive processing of the intervention site,” it was stated. Regarding the bone fragments found at the site, the FGR revealed that “a genetic profile corresponding to a male person was obtained.” “Upon confronting it with the profiles of relatives of disappeared persons, no conclusive result has been obtained that allows its identification, the confrontations continue and are updated as new genetic profiles are integrated,” it explained. It added that to date, 47 people have been detained in the Rancho Izaguirre case, in addition to there being outstanding arrest warrants that, it affirmed, are being complied with according to established judicial procedures. These procedures, it emphasized, are carried out through the Criminal Investigation Agency, in coordination with the Federal Public Ministry agent. Teuchitlán: collectives question the official version and the CNDH points out omissions in the case. However, the Jalisco Searchers collective issued a public statement in which it expressed its disagreement with the FGR's conclusions and questioned the progress of the investigations. “Reducing what happened at that place solely to a training or forced recruitment center is to ignore a fundamental part of what really happened there. There was violence, there was pain, and there was death at that site. Many people lost their lives there,” the collective stated. They affirmed that this is not an 'invention or supposition,' by pointing out that in the investigations themselves, the discovery of a body and the use of weapons exclusive to the Army is documented.
