Patricia Vazquez and Martin Hernandez
Correspondent and Reporter for La Jornada de Oriente
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 11, 2024, p. 6
After spending more than three years in preventive detention due to the process he faces for torture and protection of child trafficking networks, former governor of Puebla Mario Marín Torres received the benefit of house arrest from the second district judge in Quintana Roo, Angélica del Carmen Ortuño Suárez, said Aracely Andrade, lawyer for journalist Lydia Cacho.
Interviewed at the end of a virtual hearing held in Cancun, in which, she said, the judge decided to change the precautionary measure, Andrade anticipated that after this ruling the former president will be released in the next few hours from the Almoloya de Juárez prison, where he is located, and transferred to his home in Puebla.
He explained that Ortuño Suárez imposed a bail of 100 thousand pesos on Marín Torres; in addition, he is prohibited from leaving the city and the country, as well as from approaching or communicating with the other people indicted for the same process; his visa and passport were retained, he will be under surveillance at his private home in Puebla and an electronic bracelet will be placed on him to locate him.
The lawyer added that her client is not satisfied with the ruling, since the former president, He has the money, power and influence to evade justice.
which is why he will file an appeal next Wednesday.
Meanwhile, around noon, Lydia Cacho, the author of the book The Demons of Eden: The Power That Protects Child Pornographyposted on social network X: At this moment we are in a hearing, Judge Angélica del Carmen Ortuño Suárez has told us that she is going to release Mario Marín, that he does not deserve preventive detention for his crimes.
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The communicator explained that the former president has not been exonerated; However, he is a dangerous prisoner for me, my witnesses and my family.
and added that They release him right at the final stretch in which we expected him to be released due to torture. Thus the power of the former governor of Puebla within the Judicial Branch
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Last night there was no unusual movement outside the Altiplano prison, nor any extra security; unofficial sources indicated that if the accused is released it will be in a period of 24 to 72 hours, as he would have to undergo a medical check-up and be fitted with an electronic bracelet.
The former governor of Puebla was arrested in February 2021 in Acapulco, Guerrero, and taken to Cancún, where he was prosecuted as the probable mastermind behind the torture of journalist Lydia Cacho, who was arrested in December 2005 by Puebla judicial authorities in that city and taken by land to Puebla.
