Former Puebla Governor Mario Marín arrested for the 'Lydia Cacho case'

Former Puebla Governor Mario Marín, in a ceremony in January 2011. Francisco Guasco / CUARTOSCURO

The former governor of Puebla Mario Marín was arrested this Wednesday in Acapulco (Guerrero) by the Attorney General's Office (FGR).

The politician is accused of ordering the torture and illegal arrest of journalist Lydia Cacho in 2005, when he was ruling in Puebla.

Cacho had denounced in his book

a network of child sexual exploitation in which he mentioned the businessmen Jean Succar Kuri and Kamel Nacif as responsible.

The journalist was arrested and tortured by the Puebla Prosecutor's Office accused of defamation, in an action ordered by the then governor.

Marín had been a fugitive from justice for two years due to an arrest warrant issued by a Quintana Roo judge.

15 years ago, Mexico heard a phone call between Nacif and Marín in which the then governor of Puebla promised to “give the journalist his slap” for bothering the businessman.

Cacho was transferred from Quintana Roo, where she lived, to Puebla, in a journey of more than 20 hours by road in which she was threatened with death and tortured by ministerial agents.

Since then, the journalist has denounced the abuse of power that the politician of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) maintained in Puebla and his participation in the events of 2005. Marín had not been investigated for the events until 2019, when the Mexican Government acknowledged that Cacho's rights had been violated.