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Lydia Cacho

Born

in Mexico City, Mexico

April 12, 1963

Website

http://www.lydiacacho.net/

Genre

Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Women & Gender Studies

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Lydia Cacho was born in Mexico City in 1963 to a French mother and a Mexican father. She settled in Cancún, Mexico in 1985, where she began working at the newspaper Novedades de Cancún. Cacho speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese and English.

She is an award-winning Mexican journalist, author, feminist, and human rights activist who has published hundreds of news articles, a poetry book, a novel, collections of essays on human rights and other nonfiction works. She has made it her life’s work to investigate sexual slavery. For her work she has been kidnapped, raped, tortured and been the target of death threats.

A fearless and courageous defender of the rights of women and children in Mexico, Cacho routinely risks her life to shelter women fro ...more

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Average rating: 4.3 · 5,437 ratings · 820 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors

	Los demonios del Edén: El poder que protege a la pornografía infantil 4.33 avg rating — 2,298 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking by Lydia Cacho, Roberto Saviano (Translator), Elizabeth Boburg (Translator) 4.34 avg rating — 1,246 ratings — published 2010 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	#Ellos Hablan: Testimonios de hombres, la relación con sus padres, el machismo y la violencia 4.40 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sorrows of Mexico by Lydia Cacho, Sergio González Rodríguez, Anabel Hernández 4.27 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memorias de una infamia 4.35 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cartas de amor y de rebeldía 4.50 avg rating — 84 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Con mi hij@ no: Manual para prevenir, entender y sanar el abuso sexual 4.17 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sexo y amor en tiempos de crisis: Los miedos inconfesables de los hombres y las mentiras sobre las mujeres. 4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Muérdele El Corazon 3.57 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	En busca de Kayla 3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I've never wanted a quiet life.”
― Lydia Cacho

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“Esclavas nuevas, ideas viejas”
― Lydia Cacho, Esclavas del poder: Un viaje al corazon de la trata sexual de mujeres y ninas en el mundo

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“It is impossible to establish a real dialogue with someone who does not consider you an equal
(Fifty Shades of Feminism)”
― Lydia Cacho

tags: feminism

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