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And child abuse, and that is something that had to be done. and your book caused a real stir inside mexico. and as you say, the businessman at the heart of this ring, mr succar kuri, was ultimately locked up for more than 100 years. but then, afterwards, other parts of the story started to unfold. for example, there was the tapes of phone calls involving a governor of a state in mexico, farfrom cancun, and a powerful businessman in mexico, who on these tapes appeared to be discussing you and the fact that you were to be detained and, well, let's say physically assaulted, for your work on this ...
About that, and he's making a lot of mistakes because of that fear that he has. i'm just looking at the arc of your career, lydia, and i'm wondering if you've changed your mind about the best way to engineer change in mexico, because, obviously, for decades, you were front and centre, you were a journalist, but in recent years, you've spent an awful lot of time on more human rights campaigning and activism. you're involved with various different human rights groups in mexico, you were a very strong and loud supporter, for example, of the decision by women's groups in mexico to undertake a stri...
And told me that he was going to kill me if i pursued the case, if i kept on investigating and talking about him. so i did know, and while i investigated him, ifound out there were senators, priests, bankers and very, very powerful businessmen from different countries that were involved in this international ring of child pornography. they were buying the children for $3,000 to be brought to cancun and be sexually abused and make pornography with them. so i knew it was an international network, and i kept talking about it, and i talked to my family and i told them this is going to be really da...
Me bring my case to international courts... ..and to the inter—american court in washington, in orderfor the mexican government to react. so the international pressure has been key to solving this case and to getting these men arrested by interpol, because we have enough evidence to prove them guilty and, of course, they will have to defend themselves, but i'm sure i'm going to win. mm—hm. well, we obviously can't say whether you're going to win or not, but what does seem clear is that your story is emblematic of something much deeper in mexico. at the beginning, i referred to mexico being...