Mexico correspondent, Central America and Cuba
The Ranca Ranca doors look similar to anyone else you could find in Jalisco. Two horses on the front may nod at the surrounding fields of cattle and a field of sugar cane.
Still, what lies behind the door of black iron is allegedly proof of some worst drug violence in a recent time in Mexico.
After the advice on the possible place of the mass grave, the activist group of relatives of some of the thousands of Mexico missing people went to the ranch, hoping to find a sign of their missing loved ones.
What they discovered was far worse: 200 pairs of shoes, hundreds of garments, many suitcases and backpacks, discarded after the owners themselves were obviously deposited.
It is even colder, several ovens and fragments of human bone were found on the ranch.
The place was used, activists claim, by the new generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) for the forcible employment and training of their leg soldiers, and torture their victims and cremation of their bodies.
“There were children’s toys there,” says Luz Toscano, a member of the collective Buerreros de Jalisco Burscadores.
“People were desperate,” he remembers.
“They would see the shoes and say,” They look like those who missed my cousin when they disappeared. ”
Toscano believes that the authorities must now go through all personal effects of pieces and make them accessible to families for a more close examination.
For many, however, the worst part of the terrible discovery is that local police have carried out a ranch on the ranch, near the Teuchitlán village, as early as last September.
While at that time they executed 10 arrests and released two hostages, or they did not find or discover any evidence of the apparent size of the violence.
Although full paintings will still come up with any actions, if any, taken by municipal and state authorities after last year’s operations, critics and families of victims openly accuse them of compatriot with cartels in Jalisco.
State Governor Pablo Lemus replied in a video.
His administration completely collaborated with the federal authorities, he said, and insisted that “no one in Jalisco was washing his hands.”
For Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, events in Jalisco are threatening to overshadow the strong start to its Presidency.
Considering serious suspicions of the local police and the Attorney General’s actions, she ordered federal investigators to take responsibility for the case.
She urged people not to jump to conclusions while the investigation lasts.
“It is important to do an investigation before we get to any conclusions,” she said in her morning briefing for journalists earlier this week.
“What have they found on the site? Before anything else, we have to hear from the State Attorney’s Office, which is the responsible agency, and they will inform the whole country what they have found.”
Will most Mexicans believe that, however, the official version of the event is another question.
The place is now crawling with police officers, federal researchers and forensic teams in the dust overalls.
Whatever you conclude, the media in Mexico call the ranch IsaGuirre “extermination”.
In the meantime, more teams for search of the victims’ capital came to the capital of the state, Guadalajara, on the eve of Protest March this weekend to ask authorities to do more to find missing people in Mexico.
Rosario Magaña was among them. She is the mother of Carlos Amadora Magaña, who disappeared in June 2017. He was only 19 years old.
“I still feel desperately, because it has been eight years and I’m still in the same situation,” she said, “speaking of her infinite pursuit of her son, who is abducted with her best friend.
“This is a very, very slow process when it comes to the Office of the State Attorney and the investigation.”
“I still have faith and I hope to find it,” she emphasized. “But I’m in a situation that doesn’t move forward, and it’s discouraging.”
While abandoning the church service of unknown victims at Teuchitlán, Rosario said that the accusations of mistakes, supervision, agreement, and carelessness in the case only underlined the uphill of a combat mother like her in getting answers to the most basic questions about their children.
“There are so many mass graves in Jalisco, so many cartels, authorities know the CJNG modus operandi. So what the Government does?” asks rhetorically.
