Armed men, a group calling for the search for missing relatives on the suspect training camp site

The convincing men and armed men circulated a video calling for people looking for missing relatives at the site of what the authorities said was a Cartcl training camp In the West Mexican Gallisco state.

In a video of Monday night, a man, surrounded by others standing in the formation, read a statement that he determines as members in Gilgsco new generation Cartel. He asked about the motives of researchers who said last week that they had found hundreds of clothes articles, Dozens of charred shoes and bones On a farm outside Guadalajara.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office, who is investigating the Cartel website, immediately did not respond to the comment. Associated Press could not confirm who was behind the video.

Security analyst David Sociedo said on Tuesday that he does not doubt that Gallisco Cartel She made her, pointing to her similarity to other videos that the authorities linked to the group. Its intention was to clean the cartel image and decline against negative propaganda resulting from a week of comprehensive coverage of the site.

Jalisco Cartel was one of eight criminal organizations in Latin America Custom foreign terrorist organizations last month.

Cartels has released and released similar videos as part of the public relations strategy. Often they condemn their competitors and make themselves to be defenders of people.

“It is very sensitive, it is angry to try to stain our name,” said a member of Jalisco Search Warriors, the group looking for missing relatives. She only asked to use her first name, Angélica, for safety.

“They wash their hands for something they created,” she said, referring to the video that the cartel participated in forced employment or used the site for killings. “And where are the authorities? They did not go out to defend us or give their position.”

“No one protects us,” said Angélica. “We go out with this fear day after day … because the only thing we want to discover is the place of our children.”

More than 120,000 people disappeared in Mexico

The research group refused to determine the criminal group that could be responsible for the camp, which they say was used in forced employment and murder in Galissco, noting fears of their safety. These groups, prevalent throughout Mexico, often stop seeking justice in relatives issues and only working to find them.

The farm was discovered in Tuchitlan, about 37 miles to the west from Guadalajara, for the first time by the National Guard forces in September.

Then the authorities said that 10 people were arrested, two mortgages were released and a body wrapped in plastic was found. The state prosecutor’s office entered the state with disagreement, dogs and devices to find contradictions on the ground.

But then, the investigation went quietly until members of Jalisco Search, one of the dozens of research groups that visited the site earlier this month.

They found shoes, as well as piles of other clothes and what appears to be burned bone fragments.

The Public Prosecutor of the state of Gallisco Salvador Gonzales de Los Santos visited the farm last week. There were no details about the reason why investigators had previously failed to find what private citizens did not train, but he said that previous efforts “were not sufficient.” His office posted pictures of all the evidence in the hope that relatives will determine an element of clothes.

There are more than 120,000 people who have disappeared in Mexico, according to the government’s outcome.

Several mass graves have been found in recent months in Mexico. At least in January 56 bodies have been discovered In unlimited mass graves in northern Mexico, it is not far from the border with the United States.

A Collective grave The authorities said that the discovery of last December in a suburb of Guadalajara with dozens of bags of cut body parts included the remains of 24 people. In the same month, the Mexican authorities said they recovered a total 31 bodies From drilling in Chapas, a mandate that was afflicted by the karttel violence.

Groups looking for missing persons Say that drug trafficking and other organized crime gangs sometimes use ovens to burn their victims and do not leave any trace.

Agence France-Press contributed to this report.