In 2003, Cacho wrote articles on the sexual abuse of minors for the newspaper Por Esto including in one a note about a girl abused by a local hotel owner, Jean Succar Kuri. She continued her investigations, however, and the following year founded a shelter for battered women. Cacho believes that the attack was a retaliation for her investigations. Shortly thereafter, in 1999, she was assaulted and raped by a man in a bus station bathroom who broke several of her bones.
However, guided by her mother's feminism, Cacho soon began writing about violence against women. At the age of 23, she nearly died from kidney failure and after her recovery, she began working for Cancún newspapers, writing arts and entertainment stories. Cacho lived briefly in Paris as a young woman, studying at the University of Sorbonne and working as a maid. Her mother also taught her social awareness by taking her along with her for grassroots community projects into the poor neighborhoods. Cacho attributed her refusal to compromise to her mother, who was shocked by what she called the Mexicans' willingness to "negotiate their dignity in exchange for apparent freedom. Lydia Cacho Ribeiro was born to a mother of French origin who moved from France to Mexico during World War II. In 2010, she was named a World Press Freedom Hero of the International Press Institute.
Cacho is the winner of numerous international awards for her journalism, including the Civil Courage Prize, the Wallenberg Medal, and the Olof Palme Prize. In 2006, a tape emerged of a conversation between businessman Kamel Nacif Borge and Mario Plutarco Marín Torres, governor of Puebla, in which they conspired to have Cacho beaten and raped for her reporting. In 2004, her book Los Demonios del Edén created a nationwide scandal by alleging that several prominent businessmen had conspired to protect a pedophilia ring. Cacho's reporting focuses on violence against and sexual abuse of women and children. She is a Mexican journalist, feminist, and human rights activist who was described by Amnesty International as being "perhaps Mexico’s most famous investigative journalist and women’s rights advocate". Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, born in Mexico City, Mexico on the 12 th of April 1963. Individuals of all economic strata are shedding their jobs, hometowns, and lifestyle to embrace a wider experience and a more meaningful existence. Lydia Cacho - Mexican Journalist, Author and Womens Rights Activist
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