Diary of a journalist prosecuted "I am sequestered" "Is tremendous go through life with three federal glued to you all the time without having a single space of yours," he complains Lydia Cacho. Lydia Cacho has claimed a pedophile network which involves very powerful men in Mexico. A brave woman threatened and gagged. The most sordid of Cancun. By Francesc Relea. A photo of Marcelo Salinas   THREATS van seriously. The prosecutor has asked the journalist who did not get off guard. At the center, said in the Supreme Court; to the right, that created the shelter for battered women, and to the left, the Lebanese businessman Jean Succ Kuri, who is accused of pedophilia by Lydia Cacho. GIRLS Succ Kuri were raped by one of its hotels, the Sun and Sea at the center. On the right, Lydia Cacho, at the Center of Integral Attention to Women of Cancun, created six years ago. On the left, Kamel Nacif, textile businessman who shared with the Lebanese children. L Suburban armored truck to threats, which resulted in a demand-gramme Report 13, TV Azteca, who heads waiting at the airport das international court, an illegal detention ordered Ricardo Rocha. Was recorded, but was not issued Court of Cancun. Three federal agents from high areas and a failed attack. The ever. The channel claimed responsibility for them, a woman and two men SCAL-me-narcotics Jose Luis Santiago Vascon-who knew the story of journalist and moved to a discreet restaurant's jealousy acknowledges that the threats are that it was inappropriate to talk about it. What the city center, where he hopes Lydia serious and asked the journalist who did not get the same happened in the space Shalala, Cacho (Mexico DF, 1963). The escorts are the guards. This is his reply: "I feel my life Sabina Berman and Katia D'Artigues in the protective shield of the Mexican journalist kidnapped by this public recognition. same chain. "We have his file," before the fearsome threats received from Emotionally, I feel kidnapped. It said the heads. Entrehace ran the same fate two years. Influential men of tremendous go through life with three federal hearing that he did Fernanda Familiar for politics and business to sigh for silence are glued to you all the time, unable to TV channel Radio Picture. Likewise, this courageous woman who has dared to make a phone call without being entirely journalist Sergio Sarmiento pledged to denounce an extensive network of pornography ren what you're talking about, without having an interview with her when Cacho and washing Proinfantil Money that commits single space yours. For those who have chosen program on TV Azteca met 10 years. "I prominent names in the business of living with an escort, as politicians or famous, I had my doubts and I commented to his asispoder. The most sordid face of authority. The next day I called to Cancun, a tourist to tell me that there were no available Their complaints have been referred in Mexico, has left no recording studio. Unusual. to light thanks to Lydia Cacho. Never call me again. " His muted by the main event has crossed the border Televisa Network, a leader in media. For Televisa, nor is there borders of their country, and has received Mexico, Lydia Cacho barely exists, the solidarity and support of organizasalvo for two or three journalists. The conditions of human rights and veto became rude dyes in the thousands of intellectuals and artists from around the courses, is different. I recognize that over time transmission of the award Naciomundo. I have developed some tools staff of Journalism. Cacho was part of the national to bear this situation, but I jury, but his image was not the only image of a journalist costs much "Some night, when it no longer. was in no time. That is not spoken surrounded by bodyguards, despite the more you can, dismissed his bodyguards and, in case of Lydia Cacho is a bad scene, dangers posed by this profession in secrecy, leaving his vehicle if only because his enemies can feel the tenmuchos countries. There are the murders of for a drink and breathe freely. tation to act, under the impuniestadounidense Danny Pearl in Pakistan, the journalist lives a tremendous dilemma. ity of oblivion. Immersed in this contradiccuando investigating networks of Al Qaeda, or be permanently in the media and information irresolvable, Lydia has decided to rely on the Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya, voice communication is a torment, but when I loudly throughout its history, from the princicrítica with President Vladimir Putin. And his name is no longer in the limelight and there own first-person, in Memoirs of dozens of Mexican journalists killed or to worry about. And this is what happens infamy (Random House Mondadori), disappeared without much significance for today. The doors are closed that is about to see the light. "I write this the authorities and public opinion. the major television networks and book so you do not prevail, as usual, Lydia Cacho took time in the eye of the radio and in newspapers with the largest version of the powerful, of which siemhuracán. It has been a victim of slander and dissemination. Lydia Cacho was invited to the pre-pro wins. They have not been able to disappear, COUNTRY WEEKLY but have tried-and-will continue to do so for more than two decades, Succ Kuri garden of a restaurant in the center of Candestruirme publicly "it says on the intro, sexually exploited nearly a hundred cún. The agents of Scalia had instaducción. boys and girls in the most absolute impunity. hand and planted a hidden camera where the Mexican filmmaker Luis Mandoki, the Attorney General of the Republic of microphones for the purpose of obtaining used for over 10 years to (PGR) spoke of a network of child pornography evidence against hotelier Hollywood productions such as Trapped, til linked to organized crime. Lebanese. Bitten the hook. "By listening cierMirada angel, When a man loves But considerations of the prosecution not miss these phrases breath, the acid went up by a woman and innocent voices, has decided llemi esophagus, mouth, I dried immediately," worried the pederast, which boasts var to the cinema the story of Lydia Cacho and powerful friends, such as Jose Lopez recalls By Lydia Cacho in the book. "How to engage in talks on the protillo, former president of the Republic; Miguel was able to sit down to write his executioner with a production figures as Jodie Foster and Ange-Angel Yunes, a former deputy secretary of the Security such bravery?" The victim and the aggressor. lina Jolie. The festival of documentary DOCS, federal public and Emilio Gamboa Patron, were face to face. With all parsimony just held in the City of current head of the parliamentary group of the European and without suspecting anything, the man told well Mexico, planned Demons of Eden, diritido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). one of their repugnant deeds: chosen by Alejandra Islas and based on the book Edith Encalada was the first victim in Success: "Lesly went to my house from 8 of the same title that Cacho publihasta age 12. Lesly is bathed me, was with me Co in 2005 and unleashed the scandal. Edith was the first victim was when the Mexicans are entemucho time, he slept Raron week of the existence of such an entire Jean me and never did he complain that the employer Succ Kuri, who was born in Lebanon nothing. " Lebanese raped the 13 years from 63 years ago, who arrived in Mexico Edith: "But the besabas and the teenager, presumably tocabas." in an illegal manner. Of the hands of Success: "I am saying contacts in uyentes-polítidenunciar businessmen and their violation by a business that is allowed! Because that's the cost, did good business as a front man Lebanese necessary since age 13, and her risk of going home for a petty man who is in Acapulco, and in the commercial sector and hotehermana and her cousin, eight and nine, respectively, by itself, is part of the risk; dads just LERO in Cancun. respectively. In his statement he said that 'I care for my daughter, I watch my girls Kuri contacted with the U.S. daughter' That is allowed. For example, I would. Success will be offered to their cronies Kamel Nacif, to Lesly say: 'I get me a four years' hiding a perverse mentality and textile endeempresario of Lebanese origin, remote and if she tells me:' You are now fuck 'and I see if already ceremony, with a weakness for girls drugs Gongora, who was delegated Migration is caught, if I see him put the dick or not. You stroke that puberty. It is the other face, and Social Security in Cancun, and Yunes. The know that this is my vice, my bullshit, and that extorsionaba subtly daughters of people in the name of Gamboa, as the political protector I know it's a crime and is forbidden, but this well-known Cancun, which gave money Lebanese businessman , Also in guraba is easier because a small girl does not have to change from left to touch and photograph arse with the complaint by the girl. defense, as fast and you convince him. "A lot of good friends of Success," With the help of the State Attorney's Office to take the call. This is what I have done my whole life, sometimes writes Lydia Cacho, "do not know that their daughter, Quintana Roo, Edith tended a trap to me put traps them, because they want and adults and well married, were victims of Success and recorded Kuri com-be a conversation with me, because I have a reputation for being a Lebanese businessman. " promising that the two remained in a good father. " > DIARY OF A journalists persecuted COUNTRY WEEKLY 76 DIARY OF A journalists persecuted 77   One night dismissed his bodyguards and leaving alone, with stealth, to breathe some freedom DIARY OF A journalists persecuted COUNTRY WEEKLY 79   > The recorded material ended up in the hands of Scalia, who submitted the press as part of the investigation into a network of child pornography. The scandal was órdago. The pederast fled before the judge issued the arrest warrant, and the victims suffered harassment from the media and threats of the attackers. "I'm not a judge who must!" Edith begged in one press conference in which he appeared with his face covered. The girls sought refuge at the Center of Integral Attention to Women in Cancun (CIAM), founded by Lydia Cacho six years ago to house victims of violence. Claudia Fronjosá, coordinator of the team of psychologists from the CIAM notes that the victims arrived with a great sense of guilt. "Everything was very wicked. Success told them: 'You come here because you like it, nobody forces you, you're a whore ...' They felt shame and guilt. scared by the threats. It was a very difficult situation for those girls who came from broken homes, without a clear presence of the father. " Edith wanted to end the ERNO in pederast who lived with the Lebanese. "In the CIAM gave him many options to recover and rebuild their lives" Lydia. Cacho got him a job in television news in Mexico City. 2003 and ran the girl was 21 years old. Apparently, everything was going well. But lawyers for Success Kuri and Kamel Nacif went on the offensive based on threats and blackmail to young women and their families. Edith fell back into the net. Unexpectedly, he left everything and disappeared. In May 2005 gave an interview to Mexican television from his new home in Los Angeles, where he defended the pederast and criticized Lydia Cacho. One after another, young women who were trapped in the net of child pornography was retracted their statements, they withdrew the claims, or simply disappeared. The power of corruption became rampant. Success Kuri was arrested in Arizona at the request of Interpol and ended up being extradited to Mexico, where it is difficult to avoid a harsh sentence. He is a prisoner in the prison of high security Altiplano, in Toluca. His friends in the business world and dirty politics prepared retaliation. On December 16, 2005, Lydia Cacho lived through the worst nightmare of his life. It lasted 26 hours, but left footprints difficult to erase. By order of the governor of the State of Puebla, Mario Marin, a dinosaur from the PRI, a group of ten policemen poblanos arrested without a warrant to the journalist in front of the headquarters of CIAM in Cancun. The action was all THE TRAP. Lydia, in jail in 2005, unlawfully withheld. His enemies prepared a dossier of hundreds of pages. clearly illegal because the agents were acting presidential tions July 2006. The no investigation or trial against him, to outside its jurisdiction. Moreover, why demand for Lydia Cacho against warlord Although it appears on a recording of Puebla arrived at the Supreme Court. By a dozen policemen to arrest a Governor Marín, in agreeing to a first time, the action of a particular maneuver-together on the Law of the Game. journalist, as if it was the ringleader against a governor is in the hands of more than a gang of drug manufacturers? There are many accusations against the political high court in Mexico, which in the future The thing was not there. The detainee was powerful, especially for his next adventures will decide whether there are elements for kidnapped "legally" and moved into an in Yucatan, his hometown state. convoy of three vehicles in Puebla, in a politically prosecute Marin. If they trip that lasted 20 hours and traveled 1500 kilometers-appropriate, the National Congress, in Puebla as the spread between five meters from the States will have to rule on the suspension of the denim king, is, according to Lydia Cacho, the Republic. "When do you kill me?, Where the immunity of the governor. capo di tutti capi. But it does not have any open Lydia would be satisfied with a process to justice. "It is the employer to throw my body?" Were the questions that round at the head of Lydia. You do not vote yes. "I have clearly not almighty, who extort the gobernafaltaban reasons. The hijackers became'm going to sacri-car four years of my life for workers in Chiapas - 'whatever you want, Dad' it, tieron the trip in a humiliation and torture a criminal trial against Marin, because it does not say, Veracruz, Puebla and the old psychological endless, with threats I have money. I have spent almost three billion warlords of Quintana Roo and Guerrero, who brutal, as placing the barrel of a piss-pesos (about 260,000 U.S. dollars) since it is negotiating the surrender of a tola check with the bishop in his mouth. "If coughs, it triggers" shouted, they began litigation costs in lawyers Chedraui, with Senator Gamboa .... " The energúmeno. He came to take for granted that two airline tickets, hotels. I'm up to the journalist has faced two face eventually thrown into the sea to reach the city of debts neck. " with Nacif, in which he uttered amenade Champoton, in the state of Campeche. Politicians, business names and alliances, to the passivity of the judge. Lydia Cacho The rapid response of colleagues who are known to the accused of belonging to a lawsuit filed criminal charges against the television, which aired the employer for attempted violanoticia of detention in prison when tion, attempted homiciLydia was on his way to Puedio in an attack on their car in 2005 and was arrested without a warrant, blah, changed the plans of the contents of the talks kidnappers, who were tapped telephone. The cause is justice. The nightmare lasted 26 the new order by radio. "It's paralyzed. That is, there is no request hours. Lydia feared for his life you famous. Already left in the penalty by the prosecutor, and tele "I was safe, he thought. The. Nacif did not investigate anyone. The passage by the Reclusorio Oriente contrary, Lydia has had to move from Puebla was the last stage by several psychological tests decided to give him a lesson: the ordeal, in which pretenorden of the prosecution. Even then it was the flag of prey were locked in a cell for the attempted attack suffered in the most violent inmates. May, when the van in the lesbians to the beat The threat was not met. The traveling with their escorts lost the criminal judge interrogated through the control and the driver of which had bars and in the presence of stem dry. A tire after the television cameras. After the reading of the third to the criminal network are not alone. There was bad because he had been placed indictment, the journalist did not have any more. The journalist knows, but moved to the shaft and the screws were afloduda that Kamel Nacif and Kuri Success this time pre-ere shut and no mention jados completely. The agents operating behind the federal police. in his new book. "I did not want that became their worst fears confirmed. The protected in the bullet used by some political principle narcotics prosecutor advised Lydia. The true costs of this article to attack and destroy each other. file the complaint immediately. Several illegal detention of Lydia Cacho was discovered I was limited to counting what happens. He explained that months later, the investigation was in a week later when the newspaper The Jordan there are more videos that appear on the other zero point came when a subpoena issued to scratch the famous political talks. It is incumbent upon the State and the journalist for a psychological examination. It was secretly recorded between the governor PGR take in the matter. They have tried to ascertain whether it had been invented around Puebla, Mario Marin, and his friend Nacif, seen the videos and have a list of all the history of the attack, despite the testique affectionately calls him "my pre-governors involved. I am not police. " monium of the escorts. ambitious "An expression that has become popular. The situation of political allegations an unequal struggle of David against Mexico. Barriobajero the tone of the dialogue, two by Lydia Cacho and appearing on the Goliath. Who after all these ar with the disqualifications and insults confirm summary of the prosecution not invited to opti-month struggle? "Institutions, no. Neither they both decided to give a good-Escar same. Miguel Angel Yunes, a former Under secretariat, the PGR or the Supreme Court. The Congress, up to the journalist and who knows if they aim to Federal Ministry of Public Security, is at least. And the media, Diana go further. Nacif said one of compared Social Security in the Government's best not to talk "In the midst of so much loneliness. its partners, Juanito Naket Hanna, that of Felipe Calderón. "Against him is difficult to weigh the avizorar the operation of the tunnel. "Sometimes it wish that Lydia Cacho was the flag of the allegations appeared in videos and girls see it, and when I see it I think the only dam lesbians with the goal that with minors. You have no cause judicial way to stop all this would be if I were beaten and raped. cial open by this issue. " killed. That is, is not in my hands. The "governance beautiful" became one of Emilio Gamboa Patron, a former senator, is the other times I think the day will come that the most discredited figures from the political leader of the powerful parliamentary group will be able to resume my life. I do not know how realistic is Mexican during the elections campaign of PRI in the Chamber of Deputies. There is none of that, I have no idea. " • 80 COUNTRY WEEKLY DIARY OF A journalists persecuted DIARY OF A journalists persecuted COUNTRY WEEKLY 81