José Antonio García Apac, also known as "El Chino", was a Mexican journalist and editor for the Ecos de la Cuenca in Tepalcatepec, Michoacán, Mexico, when he disappeared 20 November 2006.

Caballero is convinced her husband's disappearance was a direct result of his work at Ecos de la Cuenca.

His film made the final selection for the Michoacán section of El Festival de Cine y Video Ingenia in 2012.

When the family lawyer, Sylvia Martinez, later demanded access to his list, the government claimed it had no record of García's visit.

Journalists in the area believed his body was thrown into the Tepalcatepec Dam,[6] and the investigators told the family to hire their own driver.

[9] Later, news about the delays reached President Felipe Calderón, who intervened and asked the federal anti-kidnapping unit to investigate.

The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office re-opened the investigation in January 2008 and then again in March 2008, but eventually also stopped working on the case due to the lack of information.

[5] The Ecos de la Cuenca under Garcia's wife's direction ceased investigative stories on organized crime in Mexico.

[8] This follows a trend that was supported by 2010 research from La Fundación MEPI, a Mexican investigative journalism organization, that shows self-censorship about crimes and drug cartels.

"García Apac's disappearance makes us fear the worst as he was working as a journalist in Michoacán state, where drug traffickers do not hesitate to decapitate rivals or critics.