Oct 23 2007
Cancun’s Lydia Cacho receives Courage in Journalism award
MEXICO CITY (AP) — She set out to expose a pedophile ring in Cancun, naming the rich and powerful she says were involved, and became a journalism sensation after she was abducted by police, allegedly at the behest of a state governor.
Lydia Cacho peered into Cancun’s underworld and came up with a stinging indictment not only of the alleged abusers, but of powerful friends and politicians she says did little or nothing to stop a prominent businessman accused of luring poor girls in the Caribbean resort to his home so that he and his friends could have sex with them.
Two years after the publication of her book “The Demons of Eden” in Mexico, Cacho’s fight against those who would silence her is now before Mexico’s Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, she collects a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation in New York — a tribute to her bravery in reporting on women’s and children’s rights.
Go to original by MORGAN LEE, Associated Press Writer Tue Oct 23, 3:27 AM ET
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