Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero said on Tuesday there was no evidence that the infamous Izaguirre Ranch — used by the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) for recruitment, training and killing of those reluctant to join its ranks — had been used as a human cremation site. Now members of the volunteer group that first alerted authorities of the property accused him of trying to 'kill the truth' about what really happened there.
Concretely, Gertz Manero said there was "not a single piece of evidence" to support claims that the site had been used to incinerate bodies. To back his claim he cited an analysis by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), which found that temperatures at the site had not exceeded 200 degrees Celsius in any of the burned areas, a figure lower than the one required to reach such a conclusion.
