The discovery of a training and extermination camp at the Izaguirre ranch in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, has sparked national shock and outrage. In response, the Búsquedas San José del Cabo collective from Baja California Sur expressed its solidarity with the affected families and the groups involved in locating the site.
At the end of 2021, at least 26 clandestine graves were located in the El Salto area of San José del Cabo, and there are still unidentified remains, according to the collective’s recent reports.
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Rosalba Ibarra, a representative of the South Californian collective, warned that the state is not exempt from the presence of clandestine spaces like this one. She recalled the case of El Salto, where collectives found a ranch with evidence of disappearances, without the authorities conducting a formal investigation.
“The case of this extermination ranch has caused a great stir and outrage, however, Baja California Sur is not exempt from extermination camps. It’s worth remembering the graves in El Salto, where families and collectives located a ranch where many belongings were found, and there was never a search warrant, an investigation, or follow-up, absolutely nothing to seek justice.
A ranch where belongings of many of the disappeared were found, many clothes, shoes, but no legal removals were made. On the contrary, the same authorities unfortunately took it upon themselves to make all the evidence disappear,” said Rosalba Ibarra, representative of Búsquedas San José del Cabo.
At the end of 2021, at least 26 clandestine graves were located in the El Salto area of San José del Cabo, and there are still unidentified remains, as the collective reported in recent weeks. Ibarra explained that four charred graves, known as “cremation ovens,” were found at the El Salto ranch, suggesting the disappearance of an undetermined number of people.
“At this ranch, we found four charred graves or four cremation ovens in which, likewise, an undetermined number of people were exterminated there. What does extermination mean? When a person is killed and buried, there is a way to identify them, through DNA. But when a person is exterminated, whether by cooking or burning, there are also ways to destroy evidence and DNA through chemicals and fire,” he added.
Ibarra lamented that, due to these practices at clandestine sites, identifying victims becomes practically impossible, preventing families from obtaining answers about their loved ones.
Ibarra lamented that, due to these practices in clandestine locations, identifying victims becomes virtually impossible, preventing families from obtaining answers about their loved ones.
Source: tribunademexico
