'Ranch of horror' was cartel training site, minister says

Mexico's security minister has said on Tuesday there was evidence a so-called "extermination" strewn with human remains was an "extermination camp" but rather it was a cartel training site where those who resisted recruitment were killed.

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The discovery earlier this month of the site, littered with body fragments, ashes, alleged makeshift crematoriums, along with hundreds of shoes and backpacks shocked Mexico, a country numbed by more than two decades of bloody cartel violence.

"It is a completely different thing for killings or torture to be carried out on a property than for it to have been an extermination camp," Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said on Tuesday morning.