Mexico: Arrest Warrant Issued for Former Governor, Other Officials for Torture of Journalist
Mexico: Arrest Warrant Issued for Former Governor, Other Officials for Torture of Journalist
Lydia Cacho and Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. | Photo: Twitter @lydiacachosi
Published 18 April 2019
Officials in Mexico are accusing four men of kidnapping and torturing journalist Lydia Cacho after she revealed a pedophile pornography network in 2005.
A federal court issued an arrest warrant against four men, including a former governor of the Mexican state of Puebla, for the kidnap and torture of journalist Lydia Cacho after she exposed a human trafficking network all over Mexico.
Federal government sources confirmed that on April 11 judge Maria Elena Suarez Prestamo, head of the First Circuit Court of Quintana Roo, revoked a previous ruling by a Second District state judge who had refused to issue an arrest warrant against Mario Plutarco Marin Torres, former governor of Puebla; Hugo Adolfo Karam Beltran, former head of the state police; Juan Sanchez Moreno, former director of the now-defunct Judicial Order group, and businessman Jose Kamel Nacif Borge, for the crime of torture of journalist Lydia Cacho.
"The appeal has been revoked ... arrest warrants has been issued against Juan Sanchez Moreno, Hugo Adolfo Karam Beltran, Mario Plutarco Marin Torres and Jose Kamel Nacif Borge, for being suspected of acts of torture," read the resolution.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office has been ordered to arrest the accused while ordering the judge to carry out all necessary procedures to comply with the resolution.
Mexican journalist and human rights defender Lydia Cacho was harrassed after the publication of 'The Demons of Eden,' an investigative report into a human trafficking and child exploitation ring in the state of Quintana Roo. Her book targeted different officials who were part of the network.
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https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Arrest-Warrant-Issued-for-Former-Governor-Other-Officials-for-Torture-of-Journalist-20190418-0022.html
Mario Plutarco Marin Torres
AMLO celebrates arrest warrant against Mario Marín
17 / Apr / 2019 By Writing . The president said he was not consulted to release the arrest warrant, but that it was an autonomous decision of the Judiciary.
President Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, celebrated the arrest warrant against the former governor of Puebla, Mario Marín Torres, and the businessman Kamel Nacif for the Lydia Cacho case.
"I celebrate that it is legal, this is also a sign of the new times," the president said at a press conference from the National Palace .
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https://www.elpopular.mx/2019/04/17/nacional/celebra-amlo-orden-de-aprehension-contra-mario-marin-202927
Hugo Adolfo Karam Beltran, former head of the state police
Clothing mogul Kamel NAcif Borge, named in
Cacho’s book as a friend of Jean Succar Kuir,
is mobbed by journalists as he leaves Mexico’s
newly-appointed special prosecutor in
Mexico City in May 2006
Jean Succar Kuri is escorted by federal
police at the airport in Mexico City in
June 2006, after U.S. authorities
extradited Kuri to face charges of child
pornography, statutory rape, Internet
abuse and corruption of minors.
© AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo
Lydia Cacho after being arrested
in Cancun, driven 1,000 miles to
jail in Puebla and charged with
libel and defamation.
© AP Photo/Joel Merino
Battling the Demons of Eden
Posted on August 12, 2011 by northernbarbarians
By Monica Campbell
Mexican investigative journalist Lydia Cacho exposed the web of business and political elites behind a child pornography ring. Since then, the list of her enemies has grown to include some of the most powerful men in Mexico.
Lighting a small candle in her office on a balmy morning in Cancún, Lydia Cacho Ribeiro is the picture of calm as she recounts the day nearly a decade ago when her work as an investigative journalist almost killed her. In 1999, soon after she’d begun to report and publish articles about violence against women, a thin blond man assaulted Cacho in a Cancún bus station, raped her and left her crumpled on the floor with broken bones. The man was never caught, but Cacho believes the crime was retaliation for her work.
Far from cowing her into silence, however, the assault only spurred Cacho— today perhaps Mexico’s most famous investigative journalist and women’s rights advocate—to intensify her fight against gender-based violence. The year after the rape, she founded a shelter for battered women. She then began a series of ever-deepening investigations into child pornography and sex-trafficking rings in Cancún that culminated in the 2005 publication of The Demons of Eden. The book propelled her onto the front pages of the nation’s newspapers and eventually into the halls of Mexico’s Supreme Court. It also put her on a collision course with some of the most powerful men in the country. As her investigations cut to the heart of what she calls the “culture of impunity” at the highest reaches of Mexican politics and business, retaliations became increasingly elaborate.
“You are under arrest,” police told Cacho on December 16, 2005, as they cornered her outside her office. They were from the state of Puebla, more than 900 miles away, and lacked jurisdiction in Cancún, a fact that alerted Cacho to the likelihood that her arrest was a power play by Puebla textile baron Kamel Nacif Borge, one of Mexico’s wealthiest men. The Demons of Eden had named Nacif, who is known as the King of Blue Jeans, as a crony of Jean Succar Kuri, a 63-year-old Lebanese hotel and retail mogul currently on trial for child pornography in Mexico.
After the cops muscled her into their car, her ordeal began. The officers, she says, forced a gun barrel in her mouth and threatened to rape her. They drove to a beachfront pier and said they would make her jump. Cacho faced the ocean, shaking with fear, when one received a call on his cell phone. “Yes sir, yes sir, okay sir,” he said. He hung up, turned to Cacho and said, “Change of plans. You’re famous, you’re on TV.”
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https://northernbarbarians.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/battling-the-demons-of-eden/
