![]() Consequently, some news outlets turn to self-censorship to avoid being targets of future violence, like how El Mañana in Tamaulipas recently announced that it would no longer publish stories on organized crime after its offices were hit with grenades and bullets on May 11. The country is known to be one of the most dangerous places in the world for members of the media to work, and despite some governmental efforts to better protect journalists, such as the approved amendment in March that made crimes against media a federal offense, the numbers continue to increase. Ávila García’s death makes him the seventh journalist killed in Mexico in 2012 alone. Others continue to call attention to the very high levels of impunity that criminals face in Mexico, and demand that authorities not allow yet another case to slip away unpunished. “It’s black for the pain of losing a colleague, but also because it’s the color that represents the stain or shadow cast on our ability to fulfill our work as journalists,” explained the group. Since Friday’s discovery, members of the Sonoran Group of Journalists (Foro Sonorense de Periodistas) have worn black ribbons or ties in his honor and as a sign of mourning for their friend and co-worker. While authorities investigate the murder, media networks and colleagues of the slain journalist have protested his death and demanded that the perpetrators be brought to justice. He was married with three young children. Authorities said that a message from the perpetrators accompanied the body, though they did not say what the text read. Ávila García (39) was a reporter at newspaper outlets El Regional de Sonora and Diario Sonora de la Tarde, where he specifically covered organized crime and police beats. Ávila García’s body was found in a plastic bag just outside the city of Empalme, Sonora, a day after witnesses reported he was kidnapped by three masked gunmen at a car wash in Ciudad Obregón. Photo: El Diario de SonoraĠ5/22/12 – On Friday, May 18, journalist Marco Antonio Ávila García became the sixth member of the media killed in the past month in Mexico, a staggeringly high number in such a short period of time. In his final recommendations, dated in Nutrias, December 17, 1780, Vildosola points out the need to have soldiers trained in Indian warfare and fast horses in order to be able to mount successful surprise attacks on the Apaches.Journalist Marcio Antonio Ávila García (left) was kidnapped from the car wash (right) in Ciudad Obregón on May 17. When the group arrives at the Nutrias presidio on December 16, they hand over their Apache captives, 6 men and 13 young boys, as well as confiscated horses. Also included is the diary of Joseph Antonio Vildosola, who commanded a similar expedition between November 7 and December 16, 1780. With the diary is a cover letter, dated in Arizpe on December 31, 1780, to the governor and commandant general of the Provincias Internas, Teodoro de Croix, in which Anza assesses the results of the expedition. The diary is signed by Anza in Arizpe, Mexico on December 18, 1780. Although many Indians head up into the hills until the soldiers have passed, Anza’s raids are successful in killing and capturing numerous Apaches. ![]() Anza and 150 men-regular soldiers, militamen and Indians-leave Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Novemand march southwest to Sonora on a campaign to flush out hostile Apaches, and to open up the area to commerce and settlement. From the Newberry Library Catalogue: Contemporary copy from around 1780 of the diaries of Juan Bautista de Anza and Joseph Antonio Vildosola, documenting the expeditions they led against the Apaches in the Mexican provinces of Sonora and New Mexico during November and December 1780.
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