 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.