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Mexican mayor arrested on alleged connections with Cartel training camp

Vanessa Bushalter

BBC NEWS

Reuters-Guardian Technique stands next to the cordoned territory during the Media Tour Prosecutor General Jalisz in Izaguirre Ranch, which activists called the cartel-bothered "The Destruction Camp," In Tevchitlane, Jalisk, Mexico on March 20, 2025.Reuters

Forensic teams gathered evidence on the site

Prosecutors in Mexico arrested Mayor Techitlan in Western Jalisz as part of the investigation on the neighboring Cartel Learning Website.

Santoa Santiago’s mayor is suspected of dating CJng.

The investigation was launched after the activists discovered bone fragments and hundreds of thrown shoes, backpacks and clothing on the Ranchi Isaguir outside the city in March.

Human rights groups said they were afraid that the ranch was used as a “destruction camp”, where people are forced to recruit and train, and those who refused were tortured and the dead.

The opening of people looking for their missing relatives about what seemed to testify to massacres in this place, shocked the country where the violence in the cartel was overflowing.

Last week, Mexico Prosecutor General Alejandra Hertz made a press conference last week, updating journalists about the Federal Investigation of the ranch.

He confirmed that the site was used as a Cartel Running Center Jalisco New Generation, one of the worst and powerful transnational drug gangs that has its own base in Jalisz.

However, he said there was no evidence that it was used as a place of extermination and cremation.

According to the Prosecutor General, the bone fragments found that recent tests were not, and forensic tests suggested that the fires lit by the ranch would be hot enough for the disposal of human remains.

Herz’s statements were raised among the “search”, the name of relatives looking for more than 120,000 people who have disappeared without missing in Mexico over the past two decades.

Reuters-woman, who wears a T-shirt with the image of a missing relative, stands behind a criminal ribbon, on the ranks of Isaguir and gestures to the sand behind, talking to the man. Reuters

Activists seeking missing relatives said they wanted to “real” the investigation of what happened on the ranch

They said his press conference raised more questions than answered, and did not address the one who owned many abandoned shoes that were on the ranch and what happened to these people.

Herz insisted that the authorities would continue to consider whether a conspiracy between CJng and local officials.

The arrest of Mayor Murgui Santiago is part of this investigation.

Prior to his arrest, the mayor said he had nothing to hide. “If they want to investigate me, yes, I’m clean and ready to say what I know,” he said in local media.

But the prosecutor’s office claims that he knew about the existence of the training center and did not act on these knowledge.

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