MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities arrested a former governor on charges that he had a reporter who investigated his role in a pedophilia ring illegally arrested and tortured, an official said Thursday.
Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero confirmed the arrest of Mario Marín, ex-governor of Puebla, in Acapulco the previous day.
On Thursday, Marín was scheduled to appear before a judge in Cancun. Marín, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, governed Puebla from 2005 to 2011.
He was a close friend of textile magnate José Kamel Nacif, also considered a fugitive. Journalist Lydia Cacho had reported on Marín’s role as political protector of the pedophilia ring and published a book in early 2005.