Lydia María Cacho Ribeiro (1963, Mexico City) is a renowned Mexican journalist, writer, and activist, specialized in investigating human trafficking, child abuse, and corruption. Since 1986, she has lived in Cancún, Quintana Roo, where she has promoted the foundation of the Comprehensive Care Center for Women and the National Network of Shelters for Women Victims of Violence.
Her most notable work, the book The Demons of Eden (2005), exposed a child exploitation network linked to high-level businessmen and politicians. As a result of this publication, Cacho was arbitrarily arrested, kidnapped, and tortured in 2005 by security forces of the State of Mexico, leading to a landmark case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and a public apology from the Mexican state in 2019.
Lydia Cacho has been an advisor to the Oasis Foundation, the University of the Caribbean, and a consultant for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). She is also the author of more than a dozen books translated into several languages, including Memoirs of an Infamy, Slaves of Power, and Letters of Love and Rebellion. She has received numerous international awards, including the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, the Olof Palme Prize, the Harold Pinter Prize, and the National Don Sergio Méndez Arceo Prize for the Defense of Human Rights. Her journalistic and activist work has been recognized as a benchmark in the defense of human rights and the fight against impunity.
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