Kuri complained that he was in jail because of Cacho and that he would do away with her. During the trial, Kuri’s lawyer attacked Cacho for writing her book. The attack came just days after Cacho testified at the trial of accused pedophile Jean Succar Kuri, one of men she wrote about in her book. Her bodyguards discovered that the nuts had been loosened on one of the wheels, nearly causing the car to crash. On May 8, Cacho alleged that her car was tampered with in an attempt to cause an accident.
She suspects the attack was related to her work. Several years earlier, in 1998, Cacho was raped and beaten in the bathroom of a bus station. In February 2006, a recording of a conversation between a businessman and a Mexican governor discussing a plan to have her arrested and raped was obtained by the media. In recent years, Cacho has written extensively about pedophiles. Cacho paid a fine and was freed she later filed a successful counter-suit for corruption and violation of human rights. A year later, she was arrested on libel charges and driven to a jail 20 hours from her home in Cancún, with officers hinting that there was a plan to rape her. In 2004, Cacho published Los Demonios del Edén, a book based on her research on child pornography among Mexican politicians and businessmen. During this time, Cacho also wrote a political analysis column called Interludio, which ran for 12 years in various magazines and newspapers in Mexico.Ĭacho’s books include Mujer Delfin, a poetry book published in 1997, and Muerdele El Corazon, a novel published in 2005 about a woman who is HIV positive. From 1994-1999, Cacho hosted a public radio program called Estas Mujeres, and she anchored the television program Esta Boca es Mía from 2000-2005. In the 1990s she wrote articles about the prostitution of Cuban and Argentine girls in Cancún. She is the founder and director of the Centro Integral de Atención a las Mujeres in Cancún, a crisis center and shelter for victims of sex crimes, gender-based violence and trafficking.Ĭacho began her career in the mid-1980s, when she worked for the cultural section of the newspaper Novedades de Cancún. Annenberg Justice for Women Journalists AwardĬacho, 44, is also a human rights advocate.Fellowship Program for Afghan Women Journalists in Exile.Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice in the Americas.Kari Howard Fund for Narrative Journalism.
Fund for Indigenous Journalists: Reporting on MMIWG2T.¡Exprésate! LGBTQI+ Reporting Initiative.
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