Overview
- The reports recount that Javier Salomón Aceves Gastélum, Jesús Daniel Díaz and Marco Ávalos were making a university film in Jalisco when their car broke down and they were surrounded by men posing as police.
- Accounts say the Jalisco New Generation Cartel allegedly mistook the students for rivals because they had filmed at a ranch under cartel surveillance.
- The students were reportedly taken to a house in Tonalá in 2018, where one was beaten to death during interrogation and the others were killed, with a recruit allegedly ordered to dissolve the bodies in acid.
- The coverage also claims rapper Christian Palma Gutiérrez, known as QBA, received 3,000 pesos a week from the cartel, citing his recruitment and online presence.
- Background sections highlight CJNG’s record of extreme violence and reference a 2014 federal case in which five men linked to the cartel were sentenced to 75 years for abducting and killing three students.