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Very Brave Young Lady

sanquintinsince73 - 10-20-2010 at 11:34 AM

20-year-old student named police chief in Mexico town
A 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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39760545/from/toolbar

bajabass - 10-20-2010 at 11:36 AM

huevos GRANDE!!!

wessongroup - 10-20-2010 at 11:46 AM

Ditto's... will say a pray for her..

chippy - 10-20-2010 at 12:19 PM

Brave and pretty. Nice combo.

Dave - 10-20-2010 at 01:57 PM

"Marisol Valles Garcia, the only person to accept the post"

I admire this young woman's courage and dedication and fear for her safety. However, if I were a Mexican national, I'd be embarrassed in reading this. I'd also question the local government's sanity. :rolleyes:

bajabass - 10-20-2010 at 02:21 PM

I too fear for her safety. I hope the cartel bosses will leave her alone, as she states that drug enforcement is not her job there. It will take hundreds of brave young Mexican men and women to start their way upward politically if the corruption that allowed the cartels to get their death hold on Mexico will be stopped. If this generation allows business as usual, the cartels will own everything they already don't in a short time period.

BajaBlanca - 10-20-2010 at 05:08 PM

huevos ?????????????? i dont think sooooooooooooo.

chutspa, yes.

jeans - 10-21-2010 at 08:38 AM

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Originally posted by BajaBlanca
huevos ?????????????? i dont think sooooooooooooo.


oh, yes.....They're just located higher ;)

DENNIS - 10-21-2010 at 09:10 AM

I doubt chilvary will keep her alive although complicity surely will. Who's trying to kid whom?

woody with a view - 10-21-2010 at 09:18 AM

every journey start with a first step. let's hope she's the start of a long line of Mexicans who stand up in the face of adversity/reality.

maybe this is their civil rights movement, so to speak.

DENNIS - 10-21-2010 at 09:50 AM

"Two bodyguards have been assigned to protect Valles Garcia. While the cartels have been more than able to penetrate much tighter security details — killing mayors and police chiefs throughout northern Mexico —she says she isn't afraid."
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This whole thing is crazy. Two bodyguards? They're as good as dead and if she isn't afraid, she's already made the deal.
How can anybody be expected to believe there's altruistic reality to this charade? I mean, Guadalupe is real close to Juarez.

rdrrm8e - 10-21-2010 at 09:50 AM

I think she's VERY irresponsible.

She made a decison to have a kid. That trumps her choices for about 20 years. Her responsibility is to provide for the kid, not make political statements with such profound possibilities.

vandenberg - 10-21-2010 at 10:01 AM

Some people at 20 can be very immature and of course of the believe they are invincable. Apparently not only reserved for macho alpha males. Her age explains a lot. Poor girl.

DENNIS - 10-21-2010 at 10:35 AM

Back to the two bodyguards.....If they didn't believe the fix was in, would they have accepted the job?
No way.

sanquintinsince73 - 10-21-2010 at 11:46 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by woody with a view
every journey start with a first step. let's hope she's the start of a long line of Mexicans who stand up in the face of adversity/reality.

maybe this is their civil rights movement, so to speak.

Not an attempt to hijack this post:
It's hard to stand up in the face of adversity while staring at the business-end of a "cuerno de chivo". I sincerely believe that if Mexico had an amendment similar to our second, there would be a hell of a lot less crime and kidnappings. Criminals prefer unarmed victims.

durrelllrobert - 10-22-2010 at 09:03 AM

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Originally posted by chippy
Brave and pretty. Nice combo.

....and the only one that would take the job :lol:

surfer jim - 10-23-2010 at 02:06 PM

She will be safe...her father is the local cartel leader.:wow:

DENNIS - 10-23-2010 at 03:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by surfer jim
She will be safe...her father is the local cartel leader.:wow:



Is that true? How do you know that?
It's not like you to induldge in BS.

surfer jim - 10-23-2010 at 04:55 PM

I read it on the internet probably.:o

mcfez - 10-26-2010 at 01:55 PM

I'll place a bet that this young woman is left alone by the cartel(s). She made a clear statement to all....that she is not going to chase the cartels...just police her town. She must be part Irish!

CaboRon - 10-29-2010 at 06:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by mcfez
I'll place a bet that this young woman is left alone by the cartel(s). She made a clear statement to all....that she is not going to chase the cartels...just police her town.

:lol::lol::lol:

surfer jim - 12-1-2010 at 10:29 PM

Borderland beat is reporting that she has been gunned down....and dead.

Woooosh - 12-1-2010 at 10:34 PM

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Originally posted by surfer jim
Borderland beat is reporting that she has been gunned down....and dead.

I am fairly sure the one killed this week was a 28 year old Mayor, the lady in this thread is a younger-still Police Chief. Sorry- can't find the link.

[Edited on 12-2-2010 by Woooosh]

surfer jim - 12-1-2010 at 11:34 PM

The story is under the heading ....soldiers find 18 bodies. Dec. 1.

Reading this again there are two women with the name Garcia mentioned. Maybe it was the older one shot dead. Sort of confusing the way it is written(for me anyway).

BajaBruno - 12-2-2010 at 12:07 PM

The one recently killed was Police Chief Hermila Garcia in the town of Meoqui.

The young lady of this thread is Marisol Valles Garcia of the town Praxedis G. Guerrero, who is still alive and well, apparently.

sanquintinsince73 - 12-2-2010 at 12:20 PM

I don't think it was Marisol who was whacked. I think the cartels no longer differentiate between male and female for their hits. TJ for the longest time a female prosecutor and never had a problem. One prosecutor did get whacked in Mazatlan recently:

A chief prosecutor for the Attorney General’s Office in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, murdered

Posted by nicoleramos on November 30, 2010

11/30/10 – The chief prosecutor of the Preliminary Investigations Department for the State Attorney General’s office (Averiguaciones Previas de la Procuraduría de Justicia del Estado), Dolores Guadalupe Guzmán Ramírez, was murdered while driving toward her office in the administrative unit of the Attorney General’s Office.

She was driving a gray Ram truck when two individuals on a yellow sports motorcycle shot her to death at the intersection of Ejército Mexicano and Los Deportes. Authorities and medics arrived at the scene shortly after 18:40 hours when the gunfire had been reported, but Ramírez was already dead. Ramírez had been serving as the head of the agency’s auto theft department, as well as the head of the homicide department.

DENNIS - 12-2-2010 at 12:21 PM

Female Police Chief Murdered in Mexico
Posted by Susana Seijas 45 comments .
Mexican federal police officers man a roadblock in the town of Meoqui, state of Chihuahua, northern Mexico, Monday Nov. 29, 2010 after the police chief of the town was gunned down.
(Credit: AP Photo) Hermila Garcia, 38, was shot on her way to work Monday by a convoy of gunmen. Garcia, a trained lawyer, took the job as police chief on Oct. 9 in the town of Meoqui, in drug violence-ridden Chihuahua state.


The assailants intercepted her in the town of Los Garcia, some 10 kilometers from Meoqui around 7:20 a.m. Monday. Garcia was in charge of up to 90 police agents in a mostly agricultural region of the Chihuahua state, some 70 kilometers south of Chihuahua City, the capital of the state.


"La Jefa," as she was known to her police agents, didn't carry weapons or have bodyguards.

"If you don't owe anything, you don't fear anything," she was fond of saying when asked why she didn't have security.


Mexican media reported that Garcia was single and lived with her parents, whom she supported financially.


Mexico's drug violence has claimed almost 30,000 lives since President Felipe Calderon took office in late 2006 and sent about 45,000 soldiers to fight the powerful drug cartels. In recent months, Meoqui had started to see some of this violence. A once peaceful town, the drug violence-related death tally has shot up to 40 deaths so far this year. Normally that death count would account for homicides over seven years.


Policing has become a job so dangerous that men are now shying away from such posts. Just last month, 20-year old mother and student Marisol Valles was appointed chief of police in Praxedis, in the Juarez valley, a key drug smuggling route just across the border from Texas also in Chihuahua state. Why did a 20-year-old mother accept the position? No one else would. Her predecessor was kidnapped more than a year ago. His head was deposited outside the police station a few days after he disappeared. After that, no one came forward to fill the police chief vacancy for more than a year -- until Valles was appointed top cop by the town's mayor.


Other women who have taken top policing jobs because no men would include two housewives: Ver?nica R?os Ontiveros and Olga Herrera Castillo, who took over policing jobs in El Vergel and Villa de Luz, both in Juarez, now known as the "murder capital" of the world due to its high murder rate. The Juarez valley has had more than 2,700 drug violence-related deaths this year.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20024173-503543.html

Cypress - 12-2-2010 at 12:35 PM

Jeez! Mexico is going down the tubes in a narco bloodbath and everybody's acting like nothing is happening. Legalize pot and put troops on the border under rules of engagement that includes deadly force. We'd being doing Mexico a favor.

surfer jim - 12-2-2010 at 07:49 PM

Thanks for the clarification.Too many GARCIAS for me...and the town was also Los Garcia....ay chihuahua. Still bad news anyway.

woody with a view - 12-2-2010 at 08:34 PM

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40255706

read between the lines of #3. if this guy is predicting it, it's already happening.....