Mexico City, Mexico, Sep 28, 2011 / 01:03 am
Catholics in Mexico are grieving the death of Maria Elizabeth Macias, a 39-year-old editor who was kidnapped and murdered by drug cartels in the border state of Tamaulipas.
Macias, a member of the Community of Scalabrinian Lay Movement and editor-in-chief of newspaper Primera Hora, was found dead on Sept. 24 after she went missing two days prior.
“After two days of research and dramatic silence, her lifeless body was found in a street in the city of Nuevo Laredo was she was born,” Father Francisco Pellizzari, Scalabrinian spiritual counselor for North America, told Fides news agency.
The Tamaulipas attorney general's office reported that a threatening message—“attributed to a criminal group”—was found next to her dismembered body and read “this happens to the media which is against us.” Macias was known for using social networking sites to report on certain criminal organizations.