Breathe
By Yuriria Rodríguez Castro
When you arrive too late to the crime scene or you want to hide how much it can show, you tear away the evidence and the facts it presents. This scene of Rancho Izaguirre, due to its contamination and lack of histrionic interpretation, will go down in history as the most shameful in comparison to San Fernando and Ayotzinapa.
But what does the scene need to speak, to be a crime scene that allows us to understand and explain facts or findings? It requires criminological analysis, but the Izaguirre Ranch is an empty shell, it is the stage planking without action or objects, it is not even an implausible script.
We are facing a multiple scene: it is a mass grave, it is an extermination crematorium, it is a recruitment center to train elements, it is a Santa Muerte worship center, it is a laboratory for corrosive chemicals that can be used for the disposal of remains or for the production of drugs: Rancho Izaguirre is seen as an attractive center that frivolizes the violence of a criminal organization, but perhaps it is not even the main crime scene since it is linked to other unexplored ranches such as La Vega or El Carmen. Even Izaguirre is a ranch that is not marked in its entirety, since the forensic marks only delimit zones with blue and yellow flags, possibly type of evidence in human remains differentiated as bones and ashes, or type of evidence between human remains or substances. In any case the forensic interpretation is missing.
When the facts are entropic, indistinguishable in a timeline because of their concurrence or simultaneity, also because of the imprecision of their relevance, the criminalist or criminologist should have the ability to define which scene he is in front of, if the finding or the fact dominates. Here it should be clarified that many times they do not coincide with each other, as it happened in Ayotzinapa, a clearer scene than that of Rancho Izaguirre, because it was very well known that the dominant scene was the finding, since the scenes of events occurred in different spaces before the discovery of the Cocula dump.
In this case, a sequence of scenes could be explained up to the central scene of the discovery, the same happened in San Fernando, where the placement of the human remains indicates that they were murdered there. But the case of Rancho Izaguirre is totally illegible compared to Ayotzinapa or San Fernando, because the markings delimit places where evidence is found that we do not know if they have a probative character or not, even more, there are no numerical markers that indicate either the order of finding or possible fact, forensic works are useless if they cannot explain the event, if they cannot make the scene speak, if they cannot give voice to the missing persons through the scene, as Raul Zafaroni suggests in La cuestión criminal, on the need for these forensic works to make the voice of criminological action emerge.
This crime scene is the shell of facts that have not been contemplated and that is why it is the greatest shame in the history of criminology in Mexico, surpassing by far the mess of San Fernando and Ayotzinapa. This Izaguirre Ranch, if its many unknowns are not cleared up, will transcend the terror of disappearance and extermination, as well as a great opportunity to understand the workings of the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation will have been missed.
Photographs: Yuriria Rodríguez Castro
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