![]() ![]() Elisa served as a teacher in Sunday school and as a teacher in the Young Women’s Auxiliary. Her family became members of the Odessa First Ward. In 1977 the family moved to Odessa as a result of Frank’s job relocation. She was an excellent homemaker and Carla their daughter was born in 1976. She then had the privilege of going to the temple again to be sealed to her parents. Approximately a year later, they were sealed together in the Los Angeles Temple. A year after they were married, Elisa was baptized in 1973 in El Paso, Texas. About four years later, they were married by the Bishop of the Inglewood Ward. She worked at both the International Hotel and the Sand Man Motel, where she met her future husband, Frank O’Beirne. via San Diego and then lived in Los Angeles, CA with her brother Edwin and his family. At the age of 18, she emigrated to the U.S. ![]() Elisa loved cooking, caring for children, and crocheting. She is the daughter to Don Ernesto Rivera and Emma Mealla. She has 2 brothers, Edwin, who is deceased and Winston who is managing the family farm in Bolivia. In a report published in February, entitled “ Veracruz: journalists and the state of fear,” RSF provides a detailed examination of the flaws in Mexico’s mechanisms for protecting journalists in danger, and offers recommendations for improving the situation.Maria Elisa O’Beirne, age 81, passed away on Septemin Odessa, Texas.Įlisa was born on Jin the town of La Paz, Bolivia in South America. Since 2000, more than 100 journalists have been killed in Mexico, which is ranked 147th out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2017 World Press Freedom Index. The previous victims were Salvador Adame Pardo, Cecilio Pineda Birto, Miroslava Breach, Maximino Rodríguez, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, Ricardo Monlui and Filiberto Álvarez Landeros. Rivera was the eighth journalist to be murdered in Mexico this year. Mexican journalist Pedro Tamayo Rosas, was gunned down in Tierra Blanca, in Veracruz state, in July 2016 despite being under Veracruz state protection at the time. “ The state of Veracruz has too long been riddled with violence against the media. “ We call on the Mexican and Honduran authorities to work together on this case and to examine all possible hypotheses so that this shocking murder does not go unpunished, like so many others,” said Emmanuel Colombié, the head of RSF’s Latin American desk. He had meanwhile been living in Acayucan, and had been making photo and video reports about the lives of other refugees in the city. ![]() He had fled to Mexico in January after Padilla’s murder because he feared that he would also be murdered.Īccording to the information obtained by RSF, the Mexican Commission for Assistance to Refugees (COMAR) had granted provisional “protective measures” to Rivera and a member of his family pending full approval of his asylum application. Rivera was pursued and shot by gunmen in broad daylight on a street in the San Diego district of Acayucan, a city in the eastern state of Veracruz. Rivera had fled to Mexico after Igor Padilla, a well-known Honduran TV journalist with whom he worked closely, was himself the victim of an execution-style murder in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula on 17 January. ![]()
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