Mexican authorities recently arrested the ex-governor of Puebla, Mario Marín, for having Lydia Cacho illegally arrested and tortured. Lydia Cacho was the reporter who investigated Marín in his role in a pedophilia ring. Cacho published a book in early 2005 reporting on Marín as a political protector of the pedophilia ring. In December 2005, Marín sent police to get Cacho from Cancun and take her to Puebla where during the 20-hour ride, she was tortured. The even bigger problem here is that the Mexican justice system failed to protect the ones greatly affected. For years, Marín walked freely in public despite Cacho’s reports. Finally, in 2019 a judge from Quintana Roo gave a warrant for Marín’s arrest. Lydia Cacho was threatened for years and is now currently living outside of the country. In the end, the United Nations Human Rights Committee recognized what happened to Cacho and how it was in violation of her human rights. Later, in 2019 the Mexican administration publicly apologized to Cacho for her arrest. Even in the end, Cacho has her eyes on serving justice as she states, “we want all and each one of the masterminds on trial.”
Reese McMullen
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