Marisol Macías November and left at the same spot as Macías. Ten other Mexican journalists had been killed in 2012 before Macías' murder. Macías was the fourth woman. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 25 out of the 59 journalists it has tracked as killed in Mexico since 1992 have been carried out as reprisals for their reporting. By Reporters Without Borders count, 80 journalists had been killed in the Mexican Drug War. No other country in Latin America is as dangerous for journalists as Mexico. The Mexican drug cartels have scared journalists into a state of silence, and Marisol Macías
Julio A. Garcia having tricked the JP into doing what Garcia wanted. Garcia even once pounded on the bar in front of the jury so strongly that he broke a bone in his hand. Garcia frequently took tough cases, having once defended former first assistant district attorney Ramon Villafranca on federal corruption charges. In 2004, Garcia represented the three cousins, Larry Dovalina (Laredo city manager from 2000 to 2006), Agustin Dovalina (then Laredo police chief), and Ramón H. Dovalina (Laredo Community College president from 1995 to 2007), in a $6 million libel suit against the "Laredo Morning Times" and then reporter Tricia Cortez