http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39760545/ns/world_news-americas/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39760545/ns/world_news-americas/)
QuoteA 20-year-old criminology student has been named the chief of police in one of the most dangerous municipalities in Mexico's violence-wracked northern state of Chihuahua.
Marisol Valles Garcia, the only person to accept the post, took charge of public security for Guadalupe Distrito Bravo on Monday, according to radio station network Notisistema. The district has a population of 9,148 residents, according to newspaper La Jornada, and comes with at least one police car and two pairs of policemen, Notisistema reported.
The state of Chihuahua has borne the brunt of spiraling drug-related violence that has left around 28,000 dead throughout Mexico in the last four years. Guadalupe's former mayor was assassinated in June, and local police have been kidnapped and murdered. At least eight people were slain in the last week alone in Guadalupe, news.com.au reported.
She has not discarded the possibility of creating a cycling police force, according to Notisistema.
Poor kid will be toast within a month. :mad:
That article is a little behind the curve. IIRC she's already quit and since fled norte. :cool:
Yeah, she's missing, and last heard hiding in the US trying for political asylum. Looks like college students ain't so dumb after all.
That's good idea.
I'd hit it.
This woman fled to the US, seeking asylum. Unsettling that this is going on in Mexican towns. There are more reports in the news of lawless towns, taken over by drug cartels. Scary stuff, and brutal for the Mexican people caught up in it.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20039436-504083.html
March 4, 2011 4:01 PM
Marisol Valles Garcia flees Mexican town after becoming police chief, says report
(CBS) Marisol Valles Garcia, who was called Mexico's bravest woman after becoming police chief of the small Mexican town of Praxedis, has reportedly fled and is seeking asylum in the United States.
A relative told Agence France-Presse on Thursday that Valles Garcia, 21-year-old mother and student, "received death threats from a criminal group that wanted to force her to work for them," and that she "went to the United States along with two relatives and will seek asylum."
However, an official from the town of Praxedis, which is across the border from Fort Hancock in Texas, denied that their police chief was leaving.
Town secretary Andres Morales told the El Paso Times that Valles Garcia had asked for some personal days off to tend to her child, but is expected to be back at work on Monday.
As for the reports of her seeking asylum, "Right now, these are rumors," he said.
After the police chief of Praxedis was kidnapped in 2009, and his head deposited outside the police station a few days later, no one stepped up to fill his shoes until Valles Garcia agreed to fill the vacancy.
"I took the risk because I want my son to live in a different community to the one we have today. I want people to be able to go out without fear, as it was before," Valles Garcia said during her swearing-in ceremony last October.
Valles Garcia's departure comes just a few months after Erika Gandara, the only law officer in the border town of Guadalupe, was kidnapped, her whereabouts still unknown.
That article is from October 20th Wags.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 15, 2011, 09:00:17 AM
That article is from October 20th Wags.
My God. It's from the Future.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 15, 2011, 09:00:17 AM
That article is from October 20th Wags.
And she is toast. My prediction came true.
What can I say, I am not Timmay with the news spammin'.
Quote"I took the risk because I want my son to live in a different community to the one we have today..."
Pretty clever way to accomplish that. Put yourself in an extremely dangerous situation, flee to the US requesting asylum, stay in the US indefinitely. There you go: different community.
What, no Jaron joke yet? :(
Quote from: Caliga on March 15, 2011, 12:22:09 PM
What, no Jaron joke yet? :(
Speaking of which, I took this pic the other day in the Target parking lot down in Florence (KY for those unfamiliar):
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpbr653.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fuu256%2Fderspiess42%2FIMAG0081-1.jpg&hash=4c80e72de9862c64907c787b8ae41d3b57af4c12)
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on March 15, 2011, 11:51:13 AM
And she is toast. My prediction came true.
What can I say, I am not Timmay with the news spammin'.
I'm just amazed it took 4 hours for the Timmy crack. I was expecting it as soon as I saw the past-sellby thing going on this morning. ;)
So Wags has taken to resurrecting old news stories I guess. :P
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 15, 2011, 01:19:52 PM
So Wags has taken to resurrecting old news stories I guess. :P
Well it is increasingly hard to resurrect old threads since we have so few now.
Yeah, really, these old news stories are useless, especially on this subject. Five months is like several lifetimes when you talk about Mexican police chiefs.
Quote from: DGuller on March 15, 2011, 01:29:57 PM
Five months is like several lifetimes when you talk about Mexican police chiefs.
LITERALLY. :(
Under 10,000 people? Wow, thought it was bigger than that. Weird they can't control these people.
I notice it says there are policeman as well as the chief. Why donj't these get in trouble with the gangsters? They're bought?
Quote from: Tyr on March 15, 2011, 02:39:50 PM
Under 10,000 people? Wow, thought it was bigger than that. Weird they can't control these people.
Drug traffickers, who aren't necessarily town residents, are the problem.
Quote from: KRonn on March 15, 2011, 08:55:32 AM
Unsettling that this is going on in Mexican towns. There are more reports in the news of lawless towns, taken over by drug cartels. Scary stuff, and brutal for the Mexican people caught up in it.
Fuck you, Tim.
Anyway, the glasses are cute. Makes me want to an Eva Angelina on her. :)
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 15, 2011, 06:07:30 PM
Quote from: KRonn on March 15, 2011, 08:55:32 AM
Unsettling that this is going on in Mexican towns. There are more reports in the news of lawless towns, taken over by drug cartels. Scary stuff, and brutal for the Mexican people caught up in it.
Fuck you, Tim.
Fuck you Seedy... ;)