20-year-old woman student is police chief of violent Mexican town

[Serpo]

20-year-old woman student is police chief of violent Mexican town

Indo-Asian News Service, Updated: October 20, 2010 22:39 IST

Mexico City: A 20-year-old criminology student, the only candidate for the position, was designated as police chief in the violence-plagued town of Guadalupe Distrito Bravo, Mexican media reported Tuesday.

Marisol Valles Garcia took charge on Monday of security in the town, population 10,000, on the US border. The community is around 80 km east of Ciudad Juarez, itself regarded as the most violent city in Mexico.

The former mayor of Guadalupe Distrito Bravos, Jesus Manuel Lara Rodriguez, was killed on June 19 at his home in Ciudad Juarez, after receiving death threats.

Valles Garcia said she will not have to fight the drug gangs, which is the responsibility of other law enforcement agencies. Instead, she will pursue preventive programmes in neighbourhoods and schools, and she will be in charge of reclaiming public spaces for the community.


http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/20-year-old-woman-student-is-police-chief-of-violent-mexican-town-61051

[Mouse]

Dead by dawn.

[Fortyone]

Dead by dawn.




More like raped, tortured, and then dead by dawn.

[mick silver]

were around the world fighting wars ... but not the one in our backyard ....

[Silver Rocket Bitches!]

She's one of them.

[osoab]

You're fired! Female Mexican police chief in drugs war town sacked after failing to return from U.S. trip to care for her sick baby (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363950/Police-chief-Marisol-Valles-Garcia-flees-America.html)


A young female police chief who faced death threats after taking charge in a violent Mexican border town has been fired after failing to return from a trip to the U.S to care for her sick baby.

Marisol Valles Garcia, 20, was hailed as the bravest woman in Mexico when she accepted the risky job in settlement of Praxedis G Guerrero, near the Texas frontier, five months ago.


Local news media have since claimed that Valles Garcia was seeking asylum in the U.S., but there has been no confirmation of that and her precise whereabouts were not clear.

Over the weekend, as speculation increased that she was seeking refuge, officials tried to contact Valles Garcia by cell phone but were unable to reach her.

Mr de la Rosa Hickerson said that he still had not been able to reach her and did not know where she was.

[Cobalt]

She is only one day late returning and they fire her :oo-->

[osoab]

Mexico police chief Marisol Valles seeks US asylum (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12684176)


Mexico's youngest police chief, Marisol Valles Garcia, has fled to the US after apparently receiving death threats, immigration officials have confirmed.

Ms Garcia attracted worldwide attention last year when she became police chief of a border town plagued by drug-related violence because no-one else dared take the job.

She is now seeking asylum in Texas after fleeing across the border.

Ms Garcia was sacked from her post on Monday for being absent without leave.

The 20-year-old criminology student was hailed as Mexico's bravest woman in October when she became head of public security in the border town of Praxedis G Guerrero.

The town is in the Juarez Valley in Chihuahua state, a battleground for drugs cartels fighting over lucrative smuggling routes into the US.

Local police and officials in the region have been frequent targets for attack despite a large military presence.

At the time of her appointment, she told the BBC she was accepting the role despite the risks involved because she felt Mexican citizens had a responsibility to try to improve security.

Praxedis is close to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, where more than 3,000 people were killed in drug-related violence in 2010 alone.

Confirmation?



She is only one day late returning and they fire her :oo-->


In the 1st article I posted, one of her supporters was claiming some fishiness on the part of the mayor.

Why would she leave a sick child to seek asylum in another country? It's not like she is going to be going back for a while. The BBC didn't have that part of the story in their piece.

[Cobalt]

From the article you posted in #5

Sacked Praxedis boss Miss Garcia, a former criminology student, had been granted a leave of absence between March 2 and March 7 to travel to the Texas to care for her infant boy, who is staying with relatives across the border for his own protection.

When she failed to return as agreed, the city's mayor decided to fire her.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363950/Police-chief-Marisol-Valles-Garcia-flees-America.html#ixzz1G47nz4Vq

[Book]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7ySwuXqr8Bo/SHLIkLweZTI/AAAAAAAABlw/l2Cmf1HJEis/s400/MexicanBoyOnStallion.jpg

Acting Police Chief Enrico

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[osoab]

From the article you posted in #5

Sacked Praxedis boss Miss Garcia, a former criminology student, had been granted a leave of absence between March 2 and March 7 to travel to the Texas to care for her infant boy, who is staying with relatives across the border for his own protection.

When she failed to return as agreed, the city's mayor decided to fire her.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363950/Police-chief-Marisol-Valles-Garcia-flees-America.html#ixzz1G47nz4Vq



Should have read a little more closer. Oops.

I figured she wanted to go to the mall. :D

[willie pete]

From the article you posted in #5

Sacked Praxedis boss Miss Garcia, a former criminology student, had been granted a leave of absence between March 2 and March 7 to travel to the Texas to care for her infant boy, who is staying with relatives across the border for his own protection.

When she failed to return as agreed, the city's mayor decided to fire her.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363950/Police-chief-Marisol-Valles-Garcia-flees-America.html#ixzz1G47nz4Vq




no one saw that coming..... :D :D :D