Posted on 09/25/2011 10:07:25 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Authorities have confirmed the murder of a Nuevo Laredo newspaper editor whose body decapitated and left with a message not to use social media to report about drug cartels.
It all happened in the Colonia Madero of Nuevo Laredo around 7:45 a.m. Saturday.
According to reports, a woman's body was next to a statue of Christopher Columbus with a message not to use social media to report about drug cartel violence.
The Tamaulipas Attorney General's Office (PGJE) identified the woman's body as 39-year-old Maria Elizabeth Macias-Castro, the editor of Nuevo Laredo's Primera Hora newspaper.
Macias-Castro is the third person in Nuevo Laredo to be murdered and left with a message not to use blogs or social media to report about drug cartels.
The mutilated bodies of two other people were left with a similar message two weeks ago.
Macias-Castro is also among three media professionals to have been killed in Nuevo Laredo in the past three years.
PGJE officials are promising a thorough investigation to find those responsible for Macias-Castro's death.
"The state government expresses it's condolences to family members and loved ones affected by these lamentable acts," PGJE officials said in a statement released Saturday night.
Sometimes we need to see evil men and the lengths to which they are willing to go. You have to know your enemy.
how about making the cost of using and especially selling too costly.....
death penalty if your convicted of selling....particularly to minors.....
Blame the feds for not removing them. Blame the courts for saying you have to, K-12.
She was a manager in the newsroom, and posted on social media sites all the time, several sites say. Sounds like someone on the inside looked over her shoulder and then made a deal to rat her out to the zetas.
Even Tor wouldnt have helped.
Sometimes it pays to stay on the right side of the law.
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