Journalist Lydia Cacho Wins ALBA/Puffin Award for Defending Human Rights in Mexico Proceso | |
go to original February 12, 2016 |
Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, champion of women's human rights, will be awarded the 2016 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism, which recognizes individuals for their work and career promoting the defense of these guarantees and exposing acts of injustice and corruption.
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives announced that it will grant the ALBA/Puffin Award to Cacho Ribeiro and U.S. journalist Jeremy Scahill on May 9.
Cacho Ribeiro became the first Mexican journalist and advocate to decry the constant State-sanctioned assaults on the freedom of expression in Mexico to the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland.
She - with more than 25 years of journalistic experience - faced arbitrary arrest and torture in December 2005 for documenting the links between political power and pedophilia and human trafficking networks in Mexico.
For not remaining silent, she has endured years of harassment and threats that even led to her exile in 2012. Her interest and efforts to keep researching and publishing never wavered in the face of such abuses.
MV Note: Lydia Cacho Ribeiro focuses her reporting on violence against and sexual abuse of women and children. In 2004, her book Los Demonios del Edén (The Demons of Eden) she charged that several prominent businessmen had conspired to protect a pedophilia ring. After the book's release, Cacho was arrested in Cancun by Puebla police and driven to Puebla, 900 miles away. Cacho has stated that the arresting officers verbally abused her and hinted there was a plan to rape her. She was then imprisoned for a short time on defamation charges before being released on bail. 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. Amnesty International has described Cacho as "perhaps Mexico’s most famous investigative journalist and women’s rights advocate." @lydiacachosi
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