The discovery “Geniery Camp” frightens Mexico

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The discovery of human remains, hundreds of shoes, clothes and secret burning has become clear to what activists called the “Geniery Camp” drugs a major scandal for the Mexican government.

More than 1,000 elements of clothes, including hundreds of husbands of shoes, were found by activists around a farm in the Mexican state of Jalisco, which also had several underground ovens that appear to be used to get rid of objects.

The horrors of the site highlighted the problem of the chronic disappearance in the country related to drug gangs. Through Mexico, more than 100,000 missing people are recorded. Certainly, this number reduces the problem, given the widespread fear of reporting the disappearance of the authorities.

A temporary obstacle on the farm has fueled speculation that it was a recruitment and training camp for Glelescu Jill New Cartel, one of the most powerful organized crime groups in Mexico, which was known to be young deception and kidnapped in search of work.

“Your skin crawls to see everything that is thrown on the ground, see the bags, and the dreams of these young people,” said Andra Navarro, one of the activists who discovered the site, told Formula Radio. “Let’s see how they ended up there because they thought they could have a better life and a better salary.”

Federal Public Prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Maniro confirmed on Wednesday that human remains were found, but he refused to say whether the site is a training or extermination camp.

The Mexican authorities are inconsistent with a dark discovery, as the Federal Administration of President Claudia Shinbom accused the state -controlled state government.

The farm was first secured by the state authorities in September 2024 in an operation that led to the arrest of 10 armed persons, the release of two kidnapped people and the discovery of an object.

However, the ovens and large quantities of clothes were not reported only last week when warriors researchers in Gallisco, a group of relatives of the missing persons, went to the farm after receiving unknown information. It took them a few hours with the basic tools to find what is suspected of human human skin underground.

The state authorities have since said that they have not been able to explore the wide farm when it was first secured, and promised to cooperate with the federal authorities, which are now leading the investigation.

Gertz said that they were investigating whether the failures in the initial investigation had decreased to inefficiency or collusion with the organized crime.

In response to the scandal, Sheinbauum announced this week to measures to support laws about missing persons and devote more resources to search. But it too Claim On Thursday, the case was used to attack and government.

The left leader promised that the accident would be investigated accurately, unlike similar scandals in the previous governments, such as the kidnapping of 43 Autzinaba students in 2014. They were never found.

“There will be no impunity,” Shinbom said on Monday. “We will never hide anything.”

Shinbaum has made the outbreak of Mexico’s violence a priority from its government after security declined under its predecessor and its ally, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Official data He showed a decrease in murders in recent months, but at the same time, the disappearance rate was Rising. Jalisco alone has nearly 15,000 people missing, the highest number of any Mexican country.

It is also the stronghold of the new Gillesco Cartel Cartel, which was last month Declare A foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration, along with seven other crime groups in Latin America.