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 Entertainment | Books | November 2006 
Gov. Marín May Have Violated Cacho´s Rights
 El Universal
A Supreme Court justice has reached the conclusion that "preliminary evidence" points to interference in the judicial process by Puebla Gov. Mario Marín in the state´s case against crusading journalist Lydia Cacho, according to information obtained by EL UNIVERSAL.
Justice José de Jesús Gudiño, who was assigned the task of looking into the case in September, will argue that the Supreme Court focus its probe exclusively on whether Marín violated Cacho´s rights by ordering her detention, rather than investigate the existence of child pornography rings, as alleged by Cacho in her book, "The Demons of Eden."
In the book, Cacho mentions Puebla textile magnate Kamel Nacif as an acquaintance of Jean Succar Kuri, who was recently extradited to Mexico from the United States to face charges of sexually exploiting minors. In response, Nacif leveled defamation and libel charges against Cacho. In December of 2005, Puebla police officers arrested Cacho at her home in Cancún and drove her 20 hours to a Puebla jail.
Cacho says she was deprived of medicine and verbally abused during the trip, and that Nacif and Marín had plotted to have her beaten and raped after being jailed - which she says she avoided with the help of prison guards.
In a profanity-laced audio recording mysteriously leaked to the media last February, voices allegedly belonging to Marín and Nacif discuss Cacho´s jailing.
Defamation charges against Cacho have been dismissed, but she could still face fines or jail time if convicted for libel, which is a criminal offense in Mexico. It is unclear when the case will be discussed in a court session.
The Supreme Court became involved in February, after the Chamber of Deputies requested the justices probe whether Cacho´s rights were violated.
Gudiño´s opinion states that "it is necessary ... to verify if the governor intervened in judicial decisions, or in actions that correspond to the state´s attorney general, since there are elements that justify the investigation."
He also proposes that one of the court´s 11 justices direct the probe along with a team of federal magistrates. |
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