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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 ...

Deal of investigative work, a shocking story in cancun, this tourist resort on the mexican coast. it involved a paedophile ring, the suffering of a large number of children who were being sexually abused, and at the heart of it was a local businessman who ultimately was locked up for a very long time. but when you started uncovering that case, and ultimately you wrote a book about it in 2005, did you appreciate just how many powerful interests you were going to upset? yes, actually, i did, because when i began covering this case, i had a tv programme back then, and i talked about it and then t...

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...

Against children, sexual violence, and not only perpetrated by their parents or their grandfathers or teachers or priests in the community, but they also wanted to talk about sexual violence perpetrated by tourists that went to cancun back then. and nobody was talking about that. and when i began this investigation, i was sort of prepared, because my mother was a feminist and she was also a psychologist and an activist, and she taught me how to get into activism on women's rights, so you could say i was feminist since i was 15 years old. so when i began doing my investigations when i was 25,

So i am brave, but i'm not stupid, so i won't risk it. and i'm going to wait until it's safe to go back but i won't stop investigating and being a journalist. right. well, i do want to talk in detail about the case you refer to, perhaps the main reason why your life is under threat in mexico. but before we get to that, i just want to take you back to the beginnings of your journalistic career. what made you, as a young woman, gravitate to this work that you have done for so long now, looking into the sort of darkest corners of mexican society and culture? you must have known from the very begi...