![]() ![]() In 2007 Lydia Cacho received the "Ginetta Sagan Award for Women and Children's Rights" from Amnesty International, in recognition of her denunciations and the high-security protection that she offers the victims of human trafficking and abuse in Cancun. Supporting her is a campaign signed by 2000 artists, both Mexican (including film director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu and actor Gael Garcia Bernal) and international (Milos Forman, Noam Chomsky, Sean Penn, Debra Winger, Demi Moore, Susan Sarandon and Bridget Fonda). She has lived under protection for the last two years since she risks retaliation on the part of wealthy paedophiles and corrupt politicians. ![]() ![]() In May 2007 Lydia’s car was sabotaged and she only just escaped with her life. She runs a crisis centre for sexually abused women and children in Cancun, in Mexico.įollowing the publication of her book Los demonios del Edén, in which she accused prominent Mexican figures of being involved in a child pornography ring, she has received death threats and was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Mexican police. She has published articles in Mexico, Spain, the United States and Canada. She began her career working for the cultural section of the newspaper Novedades de Cancùn, but soon turned her attention to the country’s social problems. Lydia Cacho is a journalist and writer, born in Mexico City in 1963, of a mother of Portuguese origin and a Mexican military engineer. ![]()
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