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She's really cute, too. Hope the narcos don't kill her.
A town near drug cartel capital Juarez, Mexico, had just one applicant for police chief after a spate of killings of public officials in drug-related violence.
So now the new chief in Guadalupe, a town of 10,000 residents near the Texas border, is 20-year-old college criminology major Marisol Valles García.
Public officials have increasingly become the targets of assassination as Mexican cartels try to tighten their grasp on the country. Just this year, 11 Mexican mayors have been slain, including the former mayor of Guadalupe, who was killed in June. In the small town, "police officers and security agents have been killed, some of them beheaded," according to the AFP.
Valles tells a local paper that she took the job to help the town's people become less fearful. "Afraid? Everyone is afraid and it's very natural. What motivates me here is that the project [to make the community safer] is very good and can do a lot for my town. I know that we are going to change and remove this," she said.
One Mexican criminology professor told the Arizona Republic that getting elected to public office in Mexico "is like winning a tiger in a raffle."
"Before, it used to be an attractive job, living on the public payroll," said Dante Haro of the University of Guadalajara. "Now being a town mayor is very difficult, not just because of the economic problems but also this issue of obedience to organized crime."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said recently that Mexico is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago," when drug lords had a chokehold on many public officials.
A young Guadalupe citizen complained to Valles, "We are spending a great part of our lives locked up inside our homes," according to a Spanish-language paper. Valles responded that she wants to encourage more events for young people in the town.
More than 23,000 people have died in the country's drug violence since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels in 2006.
She's really cute, too. Hope the narcos don't kill her.
I wish her good luck. Maybe a change in tactics is what is needed. However, I remain highly skeptical of her plan of having an all female police force, next to no weapons in one of the most violent areas of a country, that is more male dominant than a lot of others.
Once again, I hope that she has good luck with this.
Oh and where is Vick Mackey when you need him?
yikes
She might be one of a martyr though. They kill her the Mexican government might actually do something about these cartels.
Mexican government has nabbed some big fish, but Los Pepes proved there is only one way to take on the cartels. Even then, you are still fighting something that will never die.
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I wish her all the luck in the world.
Calderon's war on drugs has dwarfed even the failure of Reagan's.
they will bang her a couple of times before just letting her go
she will be dead before I finish typing this sentence.
WTF. Are there no men in Mexico?
I'm pretty sure the narcos are the ones who put here there
They are dead.
Thanks. I'm trying to figure out if that's a bulletproof vest or a bra..
well, now a TX national guardsman, and possibly another (was with him, but is unidentified) was killed in Mexico.
that one lady is seriously giving her an earful. Maybe she should have been police chief instead.
She's young and has her dreams. Time will kill that."Afraid? Everyone is afraid and it's very natural. What motivates me here is that the project [to make the community safer] is very good and can do a lot for my town. I know that we are going to change and remove this," she said.
Place your bets. I say he was somehow involved with the narcos. 21, lived in El Paso, and was killed in a very public place at 1 in the afternoon right across the border in Juarez?
Oh, I don't doubt it. Either that or he was a complete moron and him and his buddy were going to mexico to "have some fun" and "see a show." Either way...idiot.
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