FGR denies Rancho Izaguirre mass incineration claim
Original reporting: Jornada Baja California
What happened
Jornada Baja California reports that the FGR disputed a video allegation, put forensic processing at 92 percent and said 15 people faced proceedings over possible links to the training camp.
Reporting and context
Mexico’s federal Attorney General’s Office has again denied that people were burned en masse at Rancho Izaguirre in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, responding to a video in which an alleged criminal-group member claimed to have carried out such an act, according to Jornada Baja California.
The FGR issued its response on X on Wednesday. Its denial concerns the allegation in the video; the agency said its investigation into the property was continuing. Jornada Baja California reported that the FGR put forensic processing of the site at 92 percent complete and said its specialized human rights prosecutor’s office had brought criminal proceedings against 15 people possibly connected to the training camp.
The FGR said investigators were examining telephone records and mobile devices under judicial oversight and gathering victims’ testimony.
The report recalled that, in April 2025, then-Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero described the property as a recruitment and training center for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. It also reported that Jalisco prosecutors knew of the group’s presence at the site from September 2024 but had not carried out forensic work on hundreds of garments and other objects found there by groups of mothers searching for missing relatives.
The accompanying photograph is an archival view of the ranch credited in the source caption to Cuartoscuro / La Jornada.
Original report: Jornada Baja California.