Overview
- Recent articles, citing anonymous trainees and a man identified as “Francisco,” report that recruits are taught to sever fingers and toes and then made to eat pieces in front of cartel leaders.
- The alleged training sites are described as rural, hidden camps in western Mexico where courses last three to four months and include small-arms handling and combat tactics.
- One account says a trainee was executed for failing to assemble a firearm, after which the witness was ordered to sever a hand and consume part of the body.
- Another reported survivor says a timid recruit was forced to behead a captive, and an instructor made a trainee who vomited retrieve and swallow the expelled flesh.
- Media reports also reference video showing CJNG members extracting and biting hearts, with the broader claims grounded in survivor testimony and circulated footage rather than court-verified findings.