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10 kilometers from the municipal seat of Villa Azueta, Veracruz, in a rural area with few resources, surrounded by corn plantations, it is located the Monte Rico ranch, a residence with an extension of approximately three soccer fields with air conditioning systems in each of the 20 rooms that comprise it.
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This property that for many years went unnoticed by both local and federal authorities turned out to be an operations center linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), where torture and murder are suspected.
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This property was found and secured by elements of the State Civil Force and after the first investigations it was found that the ranch is related to brothers Jacinto and Alberto Rodríguez, nicknamed “Los Piña”, leaders of the Las Piñas Cartel, a criminal cell that various investigations closely relate to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel.
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Las Piñas has its operations center in Tesechoacán, José Azueta and it is believed that it also operates in the municipalities of San Andrés Tuxtla, Juan Rodríguez Clara, Isla and José Azueta and Playa Vicente, in Veracruz and Loma Bonita, in Oaxaca.
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The assurance of this place comes a day after the announcement of the United States Department of Justice about the results of the Python Project, which resulted in the capture of 750 Jalisco Cartel operators, of which 250 were detained within 24 hours.
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Months ago in another ranch near Monte Rico but in the town of Playa Vicente, also in the state of Veracruz, An enormous narco-grave linked to the CJNG was located.
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Inside the luxurious ranch, the main house is a two-story yellow structure. On his roof he rises a radio antenna that, according to the authorities of the Civil Force that protect the place, allowed the occupants communicate across the Oaxaca-Veracruz border.
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In the backyard of the property there is a cage which contains a couple of lions, which according to some inhabitants of the area were fed with people, who on some occasions were still alive when they were thrown at the cats.
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But the two lions are not the only species that inhabit this particular little zoo. 5 deer, an ostrich, two Vietnamese pigs and 1 peacock walk through the courtyard; there’s also a pond with turtles and crocodiles that barely show their eyes.
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There are versions that tell that in the pond where reptiles also live corpses of people were thrown to be eaten by animals. That is why some associations of missing people have requested to drain the pond to find out what is inside.
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The Piña ranch also has two gyms, fully equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, one of them next to the lion cage.
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The authorities indicate that easily 50 people They could live at the same time inside the property accommodated in the 20 rooms that compose it, so the possibility that it could also have served as a training center for hired assassins and thugs of organized crime is not ruled out.
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The president of the Search for Missing Persons Collective, Belén González, reported in an interview that it is a “macabre” fact to think that the alleged criminals who operated in this property fed wild animals with the corpses of their victims. And he added that the Prosecutor’s Office must undertake a thorough search. “They must check in all the spaces, dredge the lagoon, remove all the water, the animals to take them to a suitable place,” he said.
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