Pablo Gómez left home to look for work and ended up in the hands of the narco: “Help me, the Jalisco Cartel is the one who has me here!”

Pablo Joaquín Gómez Orozco was 17 years old when he wanted to go out looking for work for the holiday season of Easter in 2023, in Tepic, Nayarit. His mother, Alejandrina Orozco, says he regrets having helped him fill those forms of work one night before this high school student left his house to return no more. Two years later, when Alejandrina saw with terror and dismay, those images on TV about a ranch used by the narco in Jalisco to recruit …