Armed men who were seen in the Video -Targeting group to search for relatives in Jalisco

Mexico city – Masked and strongly armed men have brought a video in circulation where people were looking for a cartel training camp in the West Mexican state of Jalisco at the place of the authorities.

In a video that circulates on Monday evening, a man who stood by others in the formation read read an explanation in which they were identified as members of the Jalalco New Generation Cartel. He questioned the motivations of the seekers who said last week that they found hundreds of clothing and charred bones on a ranch outside of Guadalajara.

The General Prosecutor's office, which examines the cartel office, did not immediately answer a request for comments. The Associated Press could not independently confirm who was behind the video.

Security analyst David Saucedo said on Tuesday that he had not doubted that the Jalisco cartel made it and quoted his similarity to other videos that the authorities had associated with the group. It was his intention to clean the image of the cartel and to devote itself against the negative advertising, which was generated by a week of comprehensive coverage of the location.

The Jalalco cartel was one of eight Latin American criminal organizations that the US government expelled last month.

Cartels have already made and published similar videos as part of their public relationship strategy. They often condemn their rivals and make themselves the defenders of the people.

“It is incredibly sensitive, it is an outrage that they try to dye our names,” said a member of Jalalco Search Warriors, the group looking for missing relatives. She asked to only use her first name Angélica out of security.

“They wash the hands of something they created,” she said, referring to the rejection of the video that the cartel was involved in forced recruitment or used the website for murders. “And where are the authorities?

“Nobody protects us,” said Angélica. “We go out with this fear every day … because the only thing we want to find out is where our children are.”

The search group refused to identify the criminal group that could be responsible for the camp, which they say was used for forced recruitment and murders in Jalisco, with concerns for their security. These groups, which are widespread throughout Mexico, often have the demand in the cases of their relatives and only work to find them.

The ranch in Teuchitlan, about 60 kilometers west of Guadalajara, was first discovered by National Guard troops in September.

The authorities then said that 10 people were arrested, two hostages were freed and a body found in plastic. The public prosecutor had an excavator, dogs and devices to find inconsistencies in the ground.

But then the investigation became quiet until members of the Jalisco search for Warriors, one of dozens of search collectives, the Dot Mexico, visited a tip at the beginning of this month.

They found their shoes as well as the piles of other clothes and the apparently burned bone fragments.

According to the government, more than 120,000 disappeared people in Mexico are in Mexico in Mexico.

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