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Former Puebla Governor Mario Marín arrested accused of torturing journalist Lydia Cacho

2021-02-04T06:01:39.614Z


The politician, known as "the precious government", is accused of ordering the torture and illegal arrest of Cacho in 2005, after uncovering a network of child pornography and prostitution. He had been a fugitive from justice for two years.


The former governor of Puebla Mario Marín (2005-2011) was detained this Wednesday in Acapulco, Guerrero, by the Attorney General's Office (FGR),

accused of ordering the torture and illegal arrest of journalist Lydia Cacho in 2005

, after uncovering a network of child pornography and prostitution.

Marín

had been a fugitive from justice for two years.

"The Government of Puebla recognizes the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic for its intelligence work to achieve the arrest of Mario Marín Torres, hoping that justice will be applied rigorously," the current governor of Puebla, Miguel Barbosa, confirmed from his Twitter account .

The journalist celebrated Marín's capture on her Twitter account.

"I have been seeking justice for 14 years for having been tortured by this accomplice of child pornography networks," she wrote.

Marín, from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was wanted for almost two years, after in April 2019 a Quintana Roo judge issued an arrest warrant against

four people

: the former governor, businessman

José Kamel Nacif

, the former chief of the state police,

Adolfo Karam

, and his director of injunctions,

Juan Sánchez

.

The accusation is

for the crime of torture towards the journalist and activist Lydia Cacho.

 According to Mexican media, the former governor will be transferred in the next few hours to Cancun, Quintana Roo.

The organization in favor of human rights Article 19 also celebrated the arrest of the former governor and called on the FGR to "act with diligence" in locating and arresting the other intellectual authors Kamel Nacif and Hugo Karam.

More than 20 hours of torture

The journalist was arrested in December 2005 by a dozen policemen who, without an arrest warrant, took

her from Cancun to Puebla

in a vehicle owned by the textile industry businessman José Kamel Nacif.

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The businessman was one of the main ones mentioned in the book dedicated to the investigation of the event entitled

Los demonios del Edén

, in which the journalist denounced a plot of child pornography and prostitution.

During the road trip from Cancun to Puebla, which

lasted more than 20 hours, Cacho was physically and psychologically tortured

, in addition to being touched and sexual advances, and verbal and physical threats of death.

The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation concluded in 2007 that Cacho's individual guarantees were not "seriously" violated.

But in 2018, the UN Human Rights Committee approved an opinion that declared the Mexican state responsible for several human rights violations against Lydia Cacho and gave 180 days to implement the corresponding measures.

At the beginning of 2019, the government headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador apologized to the journalist by acknowledging that her human rights were violated when she was attacked in 2005.

The threats of the 'precious government'

In 2006, the newspaper La Jornada published a telephone call between Nacif and Marín in which the former governor of Puebla claimed that he had given Cacho "his bumps."

In this audio you can hear how the businessman calls the politician

"my

precious government

"

, a nickname that would remain since then.

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"Yesterday I just gave this old bitch a fucking slap. I told her that here in Puebla the law is respected and there is no impunity and whoever commits a crime is called a criminal. [...] But the thing is that he has been fucking us and it fucks up, so take your bump and let others learn, "Marín said then.

With information from Efe and La Jornada.

Source: telemundo

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