How a Bible found on the Izaguirre Ranch in Jalisco became a clue for the family of a missing young woman.

The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CCDF) has issued precautionary measures to Mexico to ensure the proper safekeeping of the remains and personal belongings of the disappeared persons at Rancho Izaguirre in Jalisco, where they were…

By Paulina Nares, CNN en Español A backpack, a suitcase, a pair of sneakers, and a Bible may seem like everyday objects to most people. But for Rubí, they represent the possible confirmation of her worst fear: that her relative, Merari Noemí García Mejía, was at the Izaguirre ranch in Jalisco, which relatives of missing persons describe as a “confinement and extermination camp” for criminal groups, something federal authorities are still investi…

In the face of the disappearance crisis in Mexico, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) announced this Friday the opening of a procedure to analyze the phenomenon of enforced disappearance in the country and to determine whether it takes the matter to the United Nations General Assembly. This is the first time that in Mexico, the CED activates the procedure of Article 34 of the International Convention for the Protection of All Pers…

The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances issued precautionary measures addressed to the Mexican State to ensure adequate protection of human remains and personal objects found at the Izaguirre ranch in Teuchitlán, Jalisco. The organization also asked to ensure the participation of...

Some say that in Mexico we need to define “transitional disappearance”, because the criminal offences we have do not apply to cases in which the victims have been located. This is false: the laws do not say so, the defendants have not served to argue it, and the victims have no service with the confusion that the argument provokes. Ramón Galaviz was arrested in January 1978 in Sinaloa and taken to the premises of the headquarters of the Ninth Mi…

As Javier Alatorre said in Facts Night, this Friday April 4 was black, from the negative effects of Trump’s taxes to unstoppable violence in Mexico. And the day began with a shocking revelation about the finding of the so-called “extermination range” in Teuchitlán, Jalisco. How did they find the Rancho Izaguirre? On March 5, 40 members of the Guerreros Search Engine collective and the photographer of the agency France Press, Ulises Ruiz, entered…