Jalisco Attorney General Salvador González De los Santos reported that young people living in this state are contacted by organized crime through social media and taken to training camps in Zacatecas. They are then transported to Nayarit to finally be used in the clashes that are occurring in Sinaloa, due to the “war” that exists there between local cartels.
In the weekly press conference held by Security Cabinet officials, the attorney general said that the young men are recruited by people who are recruiting young people through social media and that “there are some young people who unfortunately join the ranks voluntarily; some of them, not all.”
He said that the Attorney General’s Office has been able to establish that there are even cases in which the victims are encouraged by friends or family members.
He spoke of a route the mafia follows in training these young men, as they first train them in Zacatecas, and from there they move them to Nayarit, before taking them to fight against other cartels as part of the “war” taking place in Sinaloa.
“We have detected that they have even been taking them to Acapulco and Guerrero,” he noted, adding that there was a case of a young man reported missing and detained in Michoacán.
He mentioned that there are certain cases of people who remain missing here in Jalisco but are in other states despite the fact that they could have returned.
This, according to the prosecutor, stems from statements by “some released young people, who have had the opportunity to return, and have identified some young people we have filed complaints against here who are still there, who are still there in Sinaloa.”
González De Los Santos spoke about the case of Paul Alexander Ávila Aguirre and Carlos Alejandro Estrada Alba, both 16 years old, who were missing and died in a shootout in Culiacán, Sinaloa.
The official confirmed that both minors were contacted through social media and eventually recruited by criminal groups.
The first disappeared on May 10 in Huerta Vieja, in the municipality of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos. The second has been missing since May 20 after being seen in Colonia Constitución, Zapopan. Both died in mid-July in clashes in the town of Pozo, Culiacán.
Source: cronica
