Recent investigative findings from case file FED/FEMDH/FEIDDF-JAL/0000070/2025 have shed light on the recruitment practices employed by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). According to judicial documents, individuals were incorporated into the criminal structure primarily through two pathways: deceptive employment advertisements and forced abduction, while a smaller fraction joined voluntarily.
The investigation indicates that those who entered the organization voluntarily received real firearms from the beginning of their training at the Izaguirre Ranch. In contrast, the majority of recruits were ensnared by fraudulent job listings published on digital platforms such as Facebook and TikTok, which advertised positions for security guards, construction workers, and event assistants with weekly wages well above standard market rates.
Recruiters typically arranged meetings in crowded public spaces to avoid suspicion. Once isolated, victims were informed that they had been drafted into the cartel. A protected witness statement from the Teuchitlán case recalled responding to an online guard vacancy, traveling from Querétaro to Guadalajara following instructions, and being intercepted by armed individuals in a vehicle who threatened them into compliance.
Inside the camp, recruits faced strict behavioral controls, including prohibitions against looking at one another, raising their voices, or using their real names, being assigned pseudonyms instead. Testimonies compiled in the dossier reveal that daily routines at the facility involved physical conditioning, weapons handling, and camp maintenance alongside severe disciplinary measures intended to harden recruits for criminal activities.
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