Research work at the Izaguirre ranch was abandoned, searchers denounce

Jessica Xantomila and Alexia Villaseñor

La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, January 15, 2026, p. 8

The Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco collective, which found remains and clothing of people in the Izaguirre ranch, in the municipality of Teuchitlán, in March 2025, denounced that the work in the area “has been abandoned”, since in an inspection they observed that “it is full of herbs and weeds, which is an indication that there is no processing of possible evidence”, in addition to the fact that before last Monday there was no presence of security personnel.

After the complaint they made on social networks, state authorities “automatically sent a unit to protect,” but there is still no knowledge of the progress of the investigations.

In a separate interview, Indira Navarro, representative of the group, asked president Claudia Sheinbaum that the case not be forgotten. The main fear, he said, is that clues will be lost, “because there (at the ranch) there are still graves to open, searches to be carried out, judicial processes to be carried out. There are sufficient elements from officials and obviously from people from organized crime.”

What we demand, he emphasized, is that justice be done. “We want the truth to be spoken and the investigations to continue, to work because there is still a lot to uncover. And whether it is one person or two, in memory of all those who ended up there, we need this not to be forgotten.”

Navarro acknowledged that he has had communication with the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, and the Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration of the same agency, Arturo Medina. He added that he hopes to meet soon with the head of the Attorney General’s Office, Ernestina Godoy, to “ask for progress.”

He indicated that for months they had documented the lack of jobs at the Izaguirre ranch. “They justified that it was because of the rains, but that was a long time ago.”

He regretted that Jalisco continues to be “the epicenter of forced recruitment and they have done nothing to prevent it. The government has made investments in other things, but not in the issue that characterizes it, which is disappearances and the involvement of organized crime.”