University of Guadalajara reports the disappearance of four students: Jalisco

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JUNE 8, 2025 

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VIDEO TRANSLATION 

And look, the general rector of the University of Guadalajara Carla Planter, who confirmed that the four young students from the institution who disappeared within a week remain missing. 

Brian Miguel, Alejandro Axel and José Luis, students at the University of Guadalajara, remain missing. We continue to have the same information. These are four young people who have not been located. Three of the students disappeared in various neighborhoods of Guadalajara between the end of March and the beginning of April of this year within a period of one week. They are Edgar Axel Ríos, 15, last seen in the Olympic neighborhood in Guadalajara. He was studying at the Guadalajara Polytechnic. Jesús Brian Ríos, 17, last seen on April 1 in the San Juan de Dios neighborhood. He was studying at High School 6. Miguel Alejandro Medina del Castillo, 17, disappeared on April 3 in the San Juan de Dios neighborhood. Rafael was a student at Tlaquepaque High School. José Luis Arciniega Nieves, 15, disappeared in January. 

He was a student at the ITPA campus in Puerto Vallarta. Of course, we are concerned. Of course, we are concerned about the security problem throughout the country in the state. Of course, yes, of course, we are concerned. In the case of Axel, his family made public that they had detected that the young man's cell phone was in the state of Zacatecas. However, the University of Guadalajara said they had no information from the Prosecutor's Office as to whether it could be a case of forced recruitment. No, we have no information. The Committee for the Analysis of Disappearances of Persons at the University of Guadalajara published an investigation on May 12 that showed an increase in the disappearance of young people between the ages of 15 and 19, the most likely cause of this increase being forced recruitment by organized crime. With images of Ricardo Valdivia Diana Barajas

Categories: Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone, Jalisco, Jalisco Missing Persons