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Security & Strategic Review - April 2025
Mexico’s gov’t tested by tragic discovery
President Claudia Sheinbaum is facing a critical moment. In early March a search collective in Jalisco state discovered what it is calling an ‘extermination camp’, where it is believed a major drug cartel carried out forced recruitment and tortured, killed, and burned its victims. The discovery has reopened a deep wound in Mexico: the country’s enforced disappearance crisis. The incident is a reminder of the sheer levels of violence enacted by drug cartels in many areas of Mexico and authorities’ inability to bring justice for their victims – or even locate their bodies in many cases. Sheinbaum’s response is particularly crucial given that local authorities had located the ranch some six months earlier yet failed to find or reveal evidence of the magnitude of crimes that were seemingly carried out there.
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