Officials cast doubt on whether killings occurred at ‘extermination camp’: Monday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Monday greeting property league was dominated by treatment of a lawsuit that has horrified Mexico this period — the alleged “extermination camp” of Teuchitlán.

The find of quality remains and much than 150 pairs of shoes astatine a ranch successful Jalisco linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) led assorted media outlets to dub the spot an “extermination camp.”

The ranch has adjacent been called “Mexico’s Auschwitz.”

On Monday greeting — aft Security Minister Omar García Harfuch spoke astir the apprehension of an alleged CJNG recruitment compartment person and provided further penetration into the activities that allegedly took spot astatine the now-notorious spot successful the municipality of Teuchitlán —   the authorities questioned that narrative.

Government formed uncertainty connected ‘extermination camp’ communicative successful Teuchitlán ranch case  

After a fewer journalists recounted what they saw during authorized visits to the Izaguirre Ranch, Sheinbaum asked García Harfuch what the authorities knows astir the property.

“About the Izaguirre Ranch, we person confirmed that it was a grooming center,” García Harfuch said, reiterating remarks helium made earlier successful the property league astir the CJNG utilizing the spot to bid recruits lured via phony occupation ads.

The authorities has confirmed that Izaguirre Ranch was a cartel grooming center, but said that they person nary confirmation of quality remains recovered astatine the site. (Presidencia)

He noted that the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has been tasked with carrying retired an probe into the spot and the illicit activities that allegedly took spot there, but stressed that the authorities itself presently has nary grounds that the ranch was an “extermination camp.”

Sheinbaum asked Harfuch whether “deceased people” person been recovered astatine the property, located astir 60 kilometers eastbound of Guadalajara.

“We don’t person cognition [of that],” said the information minister, adjacent though a hunt corporate reported uncovering burnt quality remains astatine the spot and countless media outlets including Mexico News Daily person reported connected the find of the remains arsenic good arsenic hundreds of shoes and different discarded idiosyncratic items.

Sheinbaum specifically asked García Harfuch whether “there are quality remains connected the property,” eliciting the pursuing effect from the information minister.

“The Attorney General’s Office volition find precisely if determination are remains. We person not confirmed that. What is definite is that successful the archetypal cognition the Ministry of National Defense did with the National Guard [at the ranch past September] determination was a assemblage and 10 radical were detained.”

Sheinbaum: Jalisco authorities person not yet transferred power of the spot to the FGR

Sheinbaum confirmed 10 days agone that the FGR would instrumentality implicit the Teuchitlán case, but she told reporters connected Monday that the spot is inactive successful the “custody” of the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office.

Since September and until the existent time, the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office has been successful complaint of the investigation, she said.

“We’ve asked the Federal Attorney General’s Office to instrumentality implicit the case,” Sheinbaum said, adding that it is indispensable for it to bash truthful due to the fact that of the “many problems” successful the probe carried retired by the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office.

Alleged CJNG recruiter and 2 constabulary arrested successful Izaguirre Ranch ‘extermination camp’ case

“The Federal Attorney General’s Office needs to instrumentality implicit the spot and bash the investigations,” she said.

“If determination are quality remains oregon not, the Federal Attorney General’s Office has to archer america that,” Sheinbaum added.

The FGR has to “begin the process of investigation, and I recognize … [it’s] doing that,” she said.

“… The radical of Mexico person to cognize the information astir what determination is astatine that ranch,” Sheinbaum said.

The president pledged that nary 1 successful her authorities “will fell anything” successful narration to the lawsuit and declared that her medication “will ever beryllium connected the broadside of the victims and justice.”

‘We inquire the media to archer the truth’ 

After questioning immoderate quality outlets’ reporting connected the Teuchitlán lawsuit earlier successful her property conference, the president issued a petition to the media.

“We inquire that the media archer the information and not conception stories without having each the information,” Sheinbaum said.

Like her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum has utilized her greeting property conferences to denounce what she considers to beryllium mendacious oregon biased reporting.

One paper whose reporting she has questioned is The New York Times. In aboriginal December, she suggested that 1 study astir fentanyl accumulation successful Mexico was inspired by the tv bid “Breaking Bad,” portion aboriginal the aforesaid period she said different NYT nonfiction astir the manufacture of the synthetic opioid was “not precise credible.”

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])