The other version of events.
On March 18, 2025, alleged members of the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation (CJNG) spoke out about the case of the Izaguirre Ranch in Teuchitlán, Jalisco. In the recording, a hooded man, accompanied by more than 30 armed and hooded individuals, read a statement in which the CJNG rejected accusations that the ranch had been used as a clandestine killing center, forced recruitment or crematorium.
Transcript of CJNG communiqué.
"Good afternoon, I am an active member of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación. The reason for the video is to clarify the facts based on reality in time and form.
On September 18, 2024, Rancho Izaguirre is secured after a chase where two kidnapped people were released. Authorities secured the property but found no evidence that it was an extermination camp, closing the case at that time.
On March 8, 2025, a group of "searching mothers", backed by no one knows who and with information of dubious origin, contradicted 100% of the evidence found six months earlier by federal elements. They notify the discovery of an extermination and forced recruitment camp where they had more than 250 kidnapped people and other kidnappers. What did they find, how much did they find? They found nothing!
The truth is that the property was always secured by the Federal Government, by ground and air patrols, and they themselves assure that there was no presence of organized crime during that period of time. There is a file, arrests and an undetermined number of authorities who can answer the questions.
For the media, they should choose more carefully the testimonies of those who accuse the CJNG and verify the veracity of what is said because the cartel had no presence in the area mentioned in 2012.
With what authority or on what grounds did the group of searching mothers enter a secured property, their duty was to communicate to a competent authority and what they did was to sow and devise a horror movie to cause a furor in social networks. What are they hiding, who is behind them, why are they trying to harm the CJNG with lies and fabricated and unfounded stories?
We certainly belong to organized crime, but we are governed by codes. I am a father, son, brother and husband and I understand the pain and anguish you are going through, but this is not the way to do it and distort reality. What are you looking for?
Jalisco is calm, look at the statistics, there are no kidnappings, zero homicides in rural communities and it can be presumed that the people are at peace and calm. What do they want, another Sinaloa, where social peace was broken, kidnappings, homicides and having to migrate to another state or country to be able to be calm?
I would like to apologize on behalf of myself and my colleagues for presenting myself with weapons for the exclusive use of the army. At no time was this done with the intention of threatening or intimidating anyone, it is to demonstrate and disprove the false testimonies of which we are accused.
So at the time, I and my colleagues were kidnapped? What person in his right mind would give a weapon to a kidnapped person to take care of him? This is illogical and makes no sense whatsoever. We are here and we are still here because I, as well as my comrades, share the same ideals as our leader.
Let us recognize as a society that we have lost every value and every principle. We are organized crime, but you pretend to cause astonishment and panic of something that happens every day, corrupting the testimonies and altering them in only one direction. You think it is the right thing to do. No one is obligated to the impossible. We are the people, we serve the people and we are with the people. Thank you, good afternoon."
End of CJNG communiqué
This statement leaves many doubts as to what was intended. For some it is a farce due to the professional production of the video, the narrative, how the communicator expresses himself, which to Mexicans will remind us of a military man, someone with training not a sicario; for others the video is legitimate. Personally, it seems to me that the Government of Jalisco, headed by Jesús Pablo Lemus Navarro, wanted or wants to divert attention from its ineptitude and the corruption of his predecessor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez.
Someone wants to place the blame exclusively on the Federal Government. Someone also wants people to believe that Sheinbaum's federal government produced the video and thus link it to the narrative that there is a narco-state in order to facilitate U.S. intervention in Mexican territory.
The CJNG wants the public to think of them as moral and honorable people. They are not.
You're totally right—I completely forgot about that session. Geez! I recently started reading the session transcripts and taking notes, but there's so much information to process. I'm also diving into various other sources, so I'm taking it all in little by little.
