Mexico, human burnings in the 'ranch of horrors' denied

The Attorney General of the Mexican Republic has firmly denied that a mass incineration took place on the Izaguirre ranch in the state of Jalisco. The case had received widespread publicity in March 2025, when the Italian press defined it as "the ranch of horrors". In a press release issued today, the authorities branded as false the statements that appeared in a video "where an alleged member of a criminal group claims to have carried out a mass incineration of people at the site".

Already in April 2025, the then prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Manero had clarified that the estate actually served as a recruitment center for the Jalisco New Generation cartel.

The federal body specified that the forensic analyzes of the area were 92% complete, remedying the shortcomings of the local authorities who in September 2024 had not collected the hundreds of pieces of clothing found by groups of mothers searching for the missing.

To date, the Human Rights Prosecutor's Office has initiated criminal proceedings against 15 people linked to the criminal base. “The investigations, which continue to advance, include analyzes of telephones and mobile devices with judicial control, as well as testimonies from victims,” the institution concluded.