In Zacatecas, there are also training camps, forced labor camps, and extermination zones where the bodies and identities of victims are destroyed, reported searching mothers from various groups.
According to the activists, the number of these camps is smaller than the Izaguirre ranch in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, since criminal organizations primarily establish themselves in remote and difficult-to-access areas.
“Unfortunately, yes, many camps have been found, some for recruitment, some people have been rescued, there has been information, and they have climbed these types of mountains, cabins they build high up or on the outskirts of Zacatecas, and bodies, bones, even fragments have been brought back,” said Elizabeth Araiza, representative of the “Buscadoras Zacatecas” collective.
The searching mothers have identified the locations thanks to testimonies from survivors of forced disappearances.
“Jerez, Fresnillo, Río Grande, Guadalupe, Zacatecas. We have them all over the state, but those are more like red flags,” said Guillermina Camacho, a representative of the collective “Following Your Trail with Love Until We Find You.”
In fieldwork, they have also witnessed the horror of finding dissolved or charred bodies.
“They burn them stacked up, like logs, and we’ve already found fragments. What we realized about Genaro Codina is that they do the same thing, but they burn them in streams so that when it rains, the water washes them away and we don’t find them. We found the little spot, but we didn’t find everything we wanted to find,” explained Elizabeth Araiza, a representative of the collective “Buscadoras Zacatecas.”
Following what happened in Teuchitlán, the searching mothers asked the authorities, primarily the Ministry of Public Security, not to destroy these camps without first conducting fieldwork to verify whether their loved ones’ belongings are found there or if there are even extermination sites nearby.
“They recently found the 10, five girls and five boys. They found skeletal remains there and went back, and again they found skeletal remains in clandestine graves, but, given the situation that happened in Teuchitlán, they can’t destroy a camp.”
“You have to check it, possibly once, twice, three times, and on the outskirts of where you found a camp, you could find clandestine graves, because in the camp, right next door, they can’t have graves. They have spaces they use, and it was seen in this camp, far from where the camp is, where there were graves where they could find charred skeletal remains,” said Guillermina Camacho, representative of the collective “Following Your Trail with Love Until We Find You.”
“In the mountains, we have found the same things as in Teuchitlán, perhaps not buried with ovens, but above ground,” added Elizabeth Araiza, representative of the collective “Buscadoras Zacatecas.”
The collectives in Zacatecas acknowledged the care provided by the State Attorney General’s Office and the State Search Commission, but they assure us that they are already preparing independent fieldwork.
“They always tell us they can’t take us there because the places are so dangerous. That’s what they tell us, but we say: we know where we are and we know where we’re going, and every time we go out searching, there’s danger,” said Guillermina Camacho, a representative of the collective “Following Your Trail with Love Until We Find You.”
So far this year, authorities have reported the discovery of at least five locations where criminals have set up criminal encampments. People illegally deprived of their liberty were rescued in three of them.
Source: unotv
