The invention introduced Saturday got here within the western state of Jalisco, the turf of a cartel of the identical identify.
Authorities didn’t establish the proprietor of the land the place the huge menagerie was discovered. However the township of La Barca, Jalisco has been the scene of mass graves and cartel executions up to now.
Brokers additionally discovered antelopes, a llama, deer and birds on the property.
The animals seem to have been stored in pens, stalls and cages over a large space.
It isn’t clear why they have been being stored, however the animals have been seized and have been presumed to have been held illegally.
In 2013, at the very least 65 our bodies have been unearthed from clandestine burial pits round La Barca, which is situated close to the neighboring state of Michoacan.
Usually in Mexico, seized animals are taken to personal or public zoos or reserves the place they will obtain the right consideration.
The seizure got here per week after U.S. prosecutors revealed grisly particulars about how some drug lords use tigers.
“Whereas many of those victims have been shot, others have been fed lifeless or alive to tigers stored by Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, the defendants, who raised and stored the tigers as their pets,” in response to an indictment unsealed April 14 within the New York Southern District in opposition to the Sinaloa cartel and its associates.
The brothers, sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, are the lead defendants amongst 23 associates named within the indictment.
Mexican narcos’ fascination with unique animals has lengthy been identified.
In 2022, photographs from the scene of a drug gang shootout with police wherein 11 gang members died, confirmed a small monkey — wearing a tiny camouflage jacket and a tiny “bulletproof” vest — sprawled throughout the physique of a lifeless gunman who was apparently his proprietor.
True to kind, the lifeless monkey rapidly obtained his personal “corrida,” the standard Mexican folks ballad usually composed in honor of drug capos.
“Life could be very brief, it wasn’t the monkey’s flip (to die),” in response to the ballad, posted on social media.
