María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe [SEP] sex or gender
María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe
The disappearance of María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe happened 11 November 2009 when the female newspaper journalist who worked for "El Diario de Zamora" and "El Cambio de Michoacán" in Michoacán, Mexico vanished. Her disappearance may or may not be linked to her coverage of the Mexican Drug War but both Article 19 and Reporters Without Borders, two international press freedom organizations, have classified her disappearance as an act of enforced disappearance.
She is one of 4 journalists and the only woman to have disappeared between
2006 and 2010 in the state of Michoacán where the drug war began.
Personal.
María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe resided in Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico. She married police chief David Silva, a former public security director in Jacona, and had two daughters, ages eleven and thirteen.
Career.
María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe wrote for two Michoacán newspapers as a police reporter for "El Diario de Zamora", which is an Organizacion Editorial Mexicana owned newspaper, and for the Morelia-based "El Cambio de Michoacán