The Cartel Extermination Camp Mystery
Popular Front
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Today we speak to journalist Ioan Grillo about a strange camp that was discovered in Mexico with bones and signs of mass murder. The government claims it's a Jalisco Cartel extermination camp, however things aren't quite what they seem...
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan. |
| 0:07.0 | We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict all across the world. |
| 0:13.0 | Popular Front is completely independent. |
| 0:16.0 | Today we're speaking to journalist Joanne Grillo. |
| 0:20.0 | He's talking to us about a mysterious situation in Mexico where the Holisco drug cartel slash |
| 0:28.9 | narco militia is accused of running a cartel extermination camp where people were murdered, buried, cut up, burned in drums. |
| 0:40.3 | The government has jumped on it. |
| 0:41.8 | However, there are some discrepancies that suggest things are not quite what they seem. |
| 0:47.6 | If you like what we're doing and you want more, support us at patreon.com slash popular front. |
| 1:09.8 | You've written this excellent piece about the Holisco Cartel Extermination Camp and it's absolutely horrendous and honestly you're one of the few people |
| 1:12.9 | actually saw going into detail about it in English as well as in Spanish I thought it was an |
| 1:18.5 | extremely brutal but very important thing to go over it kind of resembles the much more |
| 1:26.7 | grizzly side the absolutely not at all glamorous side of the |
| 1:31.3 | cartel behaviour. So can you kind of start at the beginning for us and explain what is the |
| 1:36.9 | Halisco cartel extermination camp? Yeah, sure thing. Good to talk to again, Jake. So, this story blew up in Mexico, and it's a very horrific story, but then there's been, you know, a decade and a half of some pretty extreme violence, which is his part of. |
| 1:56.6 | Just a little bit of a caution with this story. It's a very contested story. There's a lot of |
| 2:03.7 | political heat around this and a lot of the hard evidence is very hard to get to. So there's some |
| 2:12.0 | very extreme claims made around this which, you know, can be tough to prove and we're going to have seen. |
| 2:18.5 | It's going to be, I don't think, I think probably this will never be resolved completely. |
| 2:23.5 | And I'll get a bit of what, what happened. |
| 2:25.3 | So basically, the news broke about this extermination camp on a ranch in Halisco State in Mexico, which is one of the big |
| 2:39.0 | states home of Guadalajara, the second city of Mexico, and a ranch there in a little town |
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