Fragments of the furnace and bone – BBC visits Mexican cartel “Destruction”

The gates to the ranch Izaguirre look like any other you can find in Jalisz. Two horses that punch on the front may nod on the surrounding smell of cattle and sugar cane fields.

However, what lies behind the black iron doors is allegedly indicating some of the worst violence in Mexico in recent times.

After a hint of the possible location of the mass grave, the activist of the relatives of some of the thousands of the disappeared people went to the ranch, hoping to find some signs of their missing people.

What they found was much worse: 200 pairs of shoes, hundreds of clothing, dozens of suitcases and morning thrown after the owners themselves were obviously disposed of.

Even more cooling, several furnaces and bone fragments were found on the ranch.

The site was used, according to activists, a new generation of Jalisco Cartel (CJng) for the forced recruitment and preparation of their soldiers, as well as to torture their victims and cremation of their body.

“There were children’s toys,” says Luz Fest, a member of the “Buscadores Guerreros de Jalisco”.

“People were desperate,” she recalls.

“They saw the shoes and say,” Like what my missing relative wore when they disappeared. ”

The controversy believes that the authorities must pass all personal belongings and make them accessible to families for a more careful review.

For many, however, the worst part of the horrific discovery is that the local police searched the ranch, near the village of Techitlan, recently in September last year.

At a time when they did 10 arrests and released two hostages, they either did not find or discovered any evidence of the obvious amount of violence carried out there.

While full photography, it should still lead to what actions, if any, were made by municipal and state authorities after the operation of the last year, critics and families of the victims openly accuse them of complicity with cartels in jalis.

Pablo Lemus Governor responded to a video message.

He said his administration had fully cooperated with the federal authorities, and insisted that “no one was washing his hands in Jalisk.”

For the President of Mexico, Clave Sheinbaum, Jalisz, threatens to obscure the strong beginning of his presidency.

Given the serious doubts about the actions of the local police and the Prosecutor General’s Office, she ordered the federal investigators to take responsibility for the case.

She urged people not to jump to conclusions until the investigation continues.

“It is important to make an investigation before we come to any conclusions,” she said at a briefing in the morning press earlier this week.

“What did they find on the site? Before anything else, we must hear from the Prosecutor General’s Office, which will be responsible for the agency, and they will give the whole country what they found.”

Whether most Mexicans believe the official version of events is another question.

Now this place is crawled with police officers, federal investigators and judicial groups in the dust overalls.

Whatever they complete, the media in Mexico is called Isoguir Ranch “extermination”.

Meanwhile, more search groups of the victim’s relatives came to the Guadalahar state capital, on the eve of March the protest this weekend to urge the authorities to do more to find the missing Mexico.

Among them was Rosario Magania. She is the mother of Carlos Amadora Magana, who disappeared in June 2017. He was only 19 years old.

“I still feel desperate, because it has been eight years, and I am still in the same situation,” she said, “talking about her endless search for her son, who was stolen with her best friend.

“This is a very, very slow process when it comes to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the investigation.”

“I still have faith and hope to find it,” she emphasized. “But I’m not moving forward in a situation, and it interferes.”

When she left the church service for unknown victims on Ranch in Tikhitlane, Rosario said that allegations of mistakes, supervision, conspiracy and negligence in this case only emphasized the mountain, as the mother, like her, have been faced with the answers to the most basic questions at the location of their children.

“Jalisco has so many mass graves, so many cartels that the authorities know what the Operandi CJng Modus. So what the government does?” she asks rhetorically.