The press conference on Monday morning of President Claudia Sheinbaum was dominated by the discussion of a case that horrified Mexico this month-the so-called “extermination camp” of Teuchitlán.
The discovery of human remains and more than 150 pairs of shoes in a Jalisco ranch linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) led various media to nickname the property a “extermination camp”.
The ranch was even called “Mexico is Auschwitz.”
Monday morning – After the Minister of Security Omar García Harfuch spoke of the arrest of an alleged recruitment cell of CJNG And provided an additional overview of the activities that would have taken place in the ownership now notorious in the municipality of Teuchitlán – The government has questioned this story.
The government has questioned the account of the “extermination camp” in the Tuuchitlán Ranchit case
After some journalists told what they saw during visits authorized at the Izaguirre Ranch, Sheinbaum asked García Harfuch what the government knows about the property.
“About the Izaguirre ranch, we confirmed that it was a training center,” said García Harfuch, reiterating Notes he made earlier in the press conference on the CJNG using property to train recruits attracted by announcements of False quotes.
He noted that The Federal Prosecutor’s Office (FGR) was responsible for carrying out an investigation In the property and the illicit activities that would have taken place there, but stressed that the government itself has no evidence that the ranch was an “extermination camp”.
Sheinbaum asked Harfuch if “deceased” had been found on the property, located about 60 kilometers east of Guadalajara.
“We have no knowledge (of this),” said the Minister of Security, even if a research collective said that the discovery of Burnt Human remains on property and countless media, including Mexico News, reported on the discovery of remains as well as hundreds of shoes and other personal articles thrown.
Sheinbaum specifically asked García Harfuch if there were “there are human remains on property”, arousing the following response from the Minister of Security.
“The prosecutor’s office will determine exactly if there are leftovers. We have not confirmed this. What is certain is that during the first operation that the Ministry of National Defense did with the National Guard (at Ranch last September), there was a body and 10 people were detained. ”
Sheinbaum: Jalisco authorities have not yet transferred property control to FGR
Sheinbaum confirmed 10 days ago that the FGR would take control of the Teuchitlán caseBut she told journalists on Monday that the property was still under the “guard” of the Office General of Jalisco.
Since September and until now, the Jalisco prosecutor’s office has been responsible for the investigation, she said.
“We asked the office of the federal prosecutor to resume the case,” said Sheinbaum, adding that it is necessary to do so because of The “many problems” of the investigation carried out by the office of the attorney general of Jalisco.
“The office of the Federal Attorney General must resume the property and carry out the investigations,” she said.
“If there are human remains or not, the office of the Federal Attorney General must tell us,” added Sheinbaum.
The FGR must “start the investigation process, and I understand … (it’s) doing this,” she said.
“… The inhabitants of Mexico must know the truth about what is in this ranch,” said Sheinbaum.
The president promised that no one in his government “will hide anything” compared to the case and said that his administration “will always be on the side of the victims and the justice”.
“ We ask the media to tell the truth ”
After questioning certain media reports on the Teuchitlán affair earlier in her press conference, the president published a request to the media.
“We ask that the media tell the truth and do not build stories without having all the information,” said Sheinbaum.
Like his predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum used her morning press conferences to denounce what she considers as false or biased reports.
A newspaper whose report questioned is the New York Times. In early December, she suggested that a report on fentanyl production in Mexico was inspired by the television series “Breaking Bad”, while later the same month She said that another NYT article on the manufacture of the synthetic opioid was “not very credible. “”
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