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Lydia María Cacho Ribeiro (born 12 April 1963) is a Mexican journalist, feminist, and human rights activist.
Cacho was born in Mexico City on April 12, 1963.

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Lydia Cacho

Mexican journalist, feminist, and human rights activist

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cacho and the second or maternal family name is Ribeiro.

Lydia María Cacho Ribeiro (born 12 April 1963) is a Mexican journalist, feminist, and human rights activist. Described by Amnesty International as "perhaps Mexico's most famous investigative journalist and women's rights advocate", Cacho's reporting focuses on violence against and sexual abuse of women and children.^[1]

Her book Los Demonios del Edén (in English: The Demons of Eden) (2004) created a nationwide scandal by alleging that several prominent businessmen had conspired to protect a pedophilia ring. In 2006, a tape emerged of a conversation between businessman Kamel Nacif Borge and Mario Plutarco Marín Torres, governor of Puebla, in which they conspired to have Cacho beaten and raped for her reporting.^[2] Marín Torres was arrested for the alleged torture on 3 February 2021.^[3]

Cacho is the winner of numerous international awards for her jour

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Lydia Cacho

Lucy Popescu worked with the English Centre of PEN, the international association of writers, for over 20 years and was Director of its Writers in Prison Committee from 1991 to 2006. She co-edited the PEN anthology Another Sky published by Profile Books in 2007. The Good Tourist, her book about human rights and ethical travel, was published by Arcadia Books in 2008. She is the editor of A Country of Refuge, an anthology of writing on asylum seekers by some of Britain and Ireland’s finest writers, published by Unbound in 2016. Six hundred and fifty copies were recently presented to British MPs to read over the Christmas recess.

We are all afraid. They fear losing the power they have won through oppression, economic violence and lies. We fear losing lives – our own and our loved ones’– for daring to rebel, to riddle our profession with coherence, for being honest in a country seduced by the illusion of magical realism that hides the tragedy of planned inequality, of systematic racism of dehumanising capitalism and structural sexism. Lydia Cacho f
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LYDIA CACHO was born in 1963 in Mexico City to a psychologist mother and a mechanical engineer father. Her mother, a feminist, emigrated from France to Mexico during World War II.
Since the mid-1980s, she has written extensively in newspapers and magazines on people trafficking, organized crime, drug trafficking, gender violence and official corruption. She specializes in defending women’s rights, and in the year 2000, she founded the Cancun-based Centre for Complete Assistance to Women for the victims of violence and abuse against women and children.
Her research unearthed a paedophile ring run by a Mexican businessman. In her 2005 book ‘Demons of Eden’, she exposed the powers behind child pornography, revealing links between the paedophile ring and government officials, politicians, businessmen and drug traffickers.
Following the publication of the book, she was sued, and the Puebla governor organized a smear campaign against her. She was imprisoned, released only upon a political asylum offer from the UN Human Rights Council. She filed charges against the governor, distri