José María
Registered
Writer Who Exposed Child Sex Ring Fears Worst Is Yet to Come
When Mexican freelance journalist and human rights activist Lydia Cacho published a book last year exposing a paedophile ring, she was warned by friends and colleagues that she would run into trouble.
It did not take long for their warnings to come true. She was arrested by the police, driven 900 kms to the state of Puebla, held for 30 hours, mistreated and threatened. Now that she is the target of the wrath of powerful Mexican businessmen and politicians, she is worried that the worst is yet t
o come.
Her book, "Los demonios del EdÃÆ’ Ô�Å¡©n" (The Demons of Eden), contains the personal accounts of minors who talk about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands
of a child prostitution and pornography ring in which prominent figures were allegedly involved.
In her book, Cacho described Nacif as a friend of Jean Succar, a Lebanese-born businessman who is facing charges of arranging paedophile parties.
Nacif, a textile magnate with factories in Puebla and other states, filed suit against Cacho for criminal libel last October. He is named in her book as a close friend of hotel owner Succar, who fled Mexico in 2003 after being exposed as the head of a child sex ring in CancÃÆ’ Ô�Å¡ºn. Succar was arrested in the United States in February 2004 and is currently awaiting the conclusion of an extradition trial.
[/b]
<a href="http://r
igorousintuition.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-lies-beneath.html" target="_blank">What lies beneath </a>
(Coincidentally, it was an expat Lebanese crime family operating in the Caribbean Basin that FBI undercover operative Darlene Novinger was investigating in 1982, when she reportedly, and unfortuna
tely, discovered the Bush family implicated in its narcotics trade.)
There certainly seems to be something about Mexico, and at least some of that has to do with its proximity to hidden American hands. It was allegedly the destination of the children and their minders in the troubling Finders case. ("Once in custody the men were somewhat evasive in their answers to the police regarding the children and stated only that they both were the children's teachers and that all were enroute to Mexico to establish a
school for brilliant children.") In little more than a decade, thousands of young women, mostly factory workers, have been raped, tortured and murdered in the borderland maquiladoras without justice being served. ("We believe this is a binational crime," says Emma Perez of the Coalition Against Violence Toward Women and Families on the Border. "And because it's happening on an international border, it requires international involvement," she says.
In November 2004, a crowd
"angry about recent child kidnappings cornered plainclothes federal agents taking photos of students at a school on Mexico City's outskirts and burned the officers alive." And as David McGowan writes in Programmed to Kill, one of Henry Lee Lucas's more extravagent claims was that he laboured for a cult as an "abductor of children, whom he delivered to a ranch in Mexico near Juarez.
Once there, they were used in the production of child pornography and for ritual sacrifices. Henry has said that this cult's operations were based in Texas, and included trafficking in children and drugs."[/b]