Mother and son who helped expose ‘extermination camp’ killed in Jalisco, Mexico
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María del Carmen Morales and her son Jaime Daniel Ramírez Morales were part of a group dedicated to finding missing people in Mexico. Her other son disappeared last year.
Two Mexican activists who publicized a grisly “extermination camp” linked to organized crime were killed on Thursday in Jalisco, according to Mexican authorities. The victims are María del Carmen Morales and her son Jaime Daniel Ramírez Morales, both activists for the rights of missing people in Mexico. Morales is part of the Warrior Searchers of Jalisco, a group dedicated to finding missing people. Morales’s son, Ernesto Julián Ramírez Morales, disappeared on February 24, 2024, in Las Villas de Tlajomulco, Jalisco according to the Warrior Searchers. In March, her group announced the discovery of the Izaguirre ranch - a site with secret crematoriums and buried human remains, believed to have been a criminal group’s center of operations. The group labeled it an “extermination camp,” where criminals lured prospective recruits and held them against their will, though Mexican authorities have not used that term when discussing the property. The state’s prosecutors office told CNN that there is no evidence that links the murder to the Morales’ activism. “But that does not mean that it is not being investigated, all avenues must be exhausted”, said Denis Rodríguez, spokesperson for the Jalisco Attorney’s Office.
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