In Mexico, a horrific discovery of piles of shoes, ovens and human residue

A group of volunteers looking for their missing relatives received advice last week about a mass grave hidden in western Mexico.

When they arrived at an abandoned farm outside La Estanzuela, a small rural village outside Guadalajara, they discovered three ovens of burning underground corpses, burning human residue, hundreds of bone fragments and neglected personal things, along with the Santa Muerte statues – sacred death.

The Mexican authorities, who were notified of the terrible discovery, said in many statements that they later found 96 shell covers of various measurements and rings sweeping minerals on the farm. By Friday, the discovery dominated local newspapers and television reports, and the search group referred to the site as a “extermination camp”.

The number of people who died on the site is not clear, none of the remains have been determined. The authorities have not yet said who managed the camp, and what crimes were committed there and how much time. But this week, the Prosecutor’s Office took over at the request of President Claudia Shinbom.

The photos taken by the authorities and the group of volunteers, and the search for Galisco’s warriors, on the abandoned farm showed more than 200 stacked shoes together and other piles of personal things: a blue summer dress, a small pink backpack, laptops, pieces of underwear. More than 700 personal elements were a chilling hint about the number of people who might have died there.

In a country, it appears to be surrounded by rings of brutal violence from drug gangs, where secret graves appear every month. Mexican images were shocked and angry human rights groups have prompted the demand that the government put an end to the violence that destroyed the nation for years.

“We immediately linked them to Nazi concentration camps,” said Eduardo Guerrero, a security analyst based in Mexico City. Mr. Gueriro added: “The number of victims who was supposed to be buried there is enormous, and he returned to appear by the Cuban reminding that Mexico is suffering from mass graves.”

It was more than 120,000 people forcibly He disappeared in Mexico Since I started saving records in 1962, according to official data. Human rights groups and volunteers groups have warned in search of their missing relatives That the number can be higher.

The discovery on the farm comes at a time when Mrs. Shinbaum faces severe pressure from President Trump to suppress the organized crime in order to avoid customs tariffs on exports to the United States and even the potential US military intervention to search for Cartile members.

Partially due to the threats of Mr. Trump, Mrs. Shinbom has transformed security issues to the center of the lead on her agenda and took a more aggressive approach in combating crime than her predecessor, says experts and analysts. But her government faces great challenges because it addresses strong criminal groups that control large areas of the country.

One of the most violent criminal organizations in Mexico, the new Gillesco Cartel, which appeared in early 2010, is now a major producer and artificial drug traders, especially fentanel and metamphitamine. The group, which operates in Gallisco and all over the country, has varied in other criminal activities such as cutting illegal trees, human trafficking and extortion.

The authorities said the farm could have been managed by Jalisco Cartel. The group’s dominance and rapid expansion coincided in recent years with an increasing number of murders, enforced disappearances and collective graves discoveries in Galissco.

“The site, who found the site, said in the interviews with Local media This week, many individuals called the group to say they were recruited and trained at the site to use weapons and torture methods. But the farm was also used as a murder site, as criminals were routinely disposed of from their victims.

Mrs. Navarro, who could not have been accessed for comment, told the media, according to testimonies, young people were recruited from other states through wrong job offers published on social media. She said that once they accepted the jobs, they were called to a bus station in Guadalajara, the state capital, and from there to the farm.

Mrs. Navaro recounted how a young man told her that young recruits were sometimes forced to burn their victims as part of their training. She said that if they objected to the orders of their coaches, recruits were sometimes feed for wild animals, such as lions.

“This is not a horror movie. Mrs. Navarro, who lost her brother nine years ago, said that this is our reality, and people should know about it.”

The New York Times could not independently verify accounts.

Local authorities first identified the farm last September and found weapons, coincidence covers and bone fragments there, according to official reports, but more investigations were stopped for unclear reasons. During the same inspection, officials found and saved two people who were kidnapped and detained on the farm, and they also discovered a body wrapped in plastic.

The state prosecutor, Salvador Gonzalez, has since told local media that it was not possible to search on the entire farm in September “because there are many hectares in the region.”

Mrs. Shinbom suggested during a press conference this week that local authorities may have been sad in their initial investigation.

She said that the public prosecutor “is right to say that it is not credible that the situation of this kind was not known to the powers of that municipality and the state.” “But the first thing we have to do is the investigation.”