Last week, members of a Mexican drug cartel slew yet another journalist for attempting to serve her community. Maria Elizabeth Macias' mutilated remains were found beside a note apparently written by the Zetas cartel in which they claimed revenge for her online exposes and criticism. Her "crime" was posting articles that would help her fellow Mexican citizens understand the dark underworld of organized crime in Mexico.
Mexico is one of several danger zones where the powerful attempt to silence journalists like Macias, who are doing their jobs. In the period of 2009-2010, some 120 journalists were killed on the job worldwide, usually while attempting to expose corruption, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Another 145 journalists are imprisoned and more than 450 live in exile for fear of being persecuted or killed.
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