Armed men post a video that denies a group looking for missing relatives at the point of suspicious cartel training camp

Masked and hard -armed men circled a video that denied people looking for missing relatives at the place of what the authorities said Cartel training camp In the Western Mexican State of Jalisco.

In a video circulating on Monday night, the man, with which the other standing in the formation, read a statement that identifies them as members Jalisco New Generation Carte. He questioned the motivation of the tracker that found hundreds of clothing articles last week, Dozens of shoes and coal bones on the ranch outside Guadalajara.

The State Attorney’s Office, which investigates the cartel, did not immediately respond to the commentary request. Associated Press could not independently confirm who was behind the video.

Security analyst David Saucedo said on Tuesday not to doubt that Jalisco cartel Made it, citing his resemblance to other videos that the authorities connected with the group. His intention was to clean the image of the cartel and push himself against the negative publicity of generated a week of exhaustive coverage of the place.

Cartel Jalisco was one of eight Latin American criminal organizations, the US government certain foreign terrorist organizations Last month.

The cartels have made and posted similar videos before as part of their public relations strategy. They often deny their rivals and seem to be veterans of people.

“It is incredibly sensitive, the angry is that they are trying to break our name,” said Jalisc’s Warriors member, a group seeking missing relatives. She only asked her name, Angélica, for security.

“They make hands hands from something they created,” she said, referring to the refusal of the video that the cartel was involved in forcibly employment or used a place for murder. “And where are the authorities? They did not go out to defend us or give our position.”

“No one protects us,” Angélica said. “We go out with this fear day by day … because the only thing we want to find out is where our children are.”

Over 120,000 disappeared in Mexico

The search group refused to identify a criminal group that could be responsible for a camp they say was used for forcibly employment and murders in Jalisco, stating concerns for their safety. These groups, which prevail in Mexico, often stop demanding justice in cases of their relatives and only work to find.

The Teuchitlan ranch, about 37 miles west of Guadalajara, the troops of the National Guard first discovered.

The authorities then announced that 10 people were arrested, two hostages were released and the body was found wrapped in plastic. The State Prosecutor’s Office entered with rovocopac, dogs and devices to find inconsistencies in the country.

But then the investigation fell silent until members of Jalisc’s search warriors, one of dozens of searches that touch Mexico, visited the place earlier this month at the counsel.

They found shoes as well as crowds of other clothing and what seemed to be fragments burned bone.

State Prosecutor Jalisco Salvador González de Los Santos personally visited the ranch last week. He did not give details about why investigators had not been able to find what the uneducated private citizens had done before, but said that previous efforts were “not enough”. His office has published photos of all the evidence in the hope that relatives can identify the garment.

There are more than 120,000 people of missing people in Mexico, according to government sum.

In recent months, more mass graves have been found in Mexico. In January, at least 56 bodies were discovered In unmarked mass graves in northern Mexico, not far from the border with the United States.

AND Mass grave Detected last December in the suburbs of Guadalajara with dozens of bags of divorced body parts contained 24 people, the authorities said. The same month of Mexican authorities said they had recovered in total 31 bodies Of the caves in Chiapas, the state is struggling with the violence of the cartel.

Collectives seeking missing persons Say that drug trafficks and other organized crime gangs sometimes use ovens to burn their victims and leave no mark.

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE contributed to this report.