Prosecutors in Mexico have arrested the mayor of the city of Teuchitlán, in the northern state of Jalisco, during an investigation into a drug cartel training camp.
According to the data, Mayor José Murguía Santiago is suspected of favoring the New Generation cartel, charges which he has denied.
The investigation was launched after activists discovered bone fragments and remnants of clothing, including backpacks, discarded at the Izaguirre farm outside the city.
Human rights groups said they suspected the farm was used as an "extermination camp," where people were forcibly recruited and trained, and those who refused were tortured and killed.
Mexico's Attorney General, Alejandro Gertz, gave a press conference last week where he briefed reporters on the federal investigation into the farm.
He confirmed that the site had been used as a training center for recruits of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the most feared and powerful transnational drug trafficking gangs, which has its power base in Jalisco. (A2 Televizion)
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