 Regina Martínez Pérez was born in the small town of Rafael Lucio , Veracruz on 7 September 1963 . Her parents , María Lorenza Pérez Vázquez and Florencio Martínez Romero , had 11 children . From a young age , Martínez Pérez wanted to be a journalist ; after graduating from high school , she left her hometown to study journalism at Universidad Veracruzana ( UV ) . Shortly after graduating , she moved to the state of Chiapas to work as a reporter for Mexican Rural Television ( Televisión Rural Mexicana – TRM ) , a state @-@ owned television company , in the early 1980s . Martínez Pérez was part of a group of former students from the UV who were hired by the government to work at the television company . But after demanding better working conditions and facing censorship from the company , she left the company to pursue a career in print media . 
