Posted on 03/07/2011 12:10:50 PM PST by perfect stranger
The AP reports that 21-year-old Marisol Valles has been fired from her post as police chief of the violent town of Praxedis G. Guerrero when she didn't show up for work this morning. She is reportedly seeking asylum in the United States after receiving death threats from drug cartels. She may have difficulty making an asylum case, though, since U.S. immigration officials typically approve such request on the basis of political threats to an applicant's life or well-being, and Mexican drug violence is obviously not state-sanctioned.
Valles was hailed as the bravest woman in Mexico for agreeing to head up the town's police force when no one else applied for the job in October. Warring local drug gangs had beheaded other city officials--but Valles, a criminology student, said she overcame her fear for the good of her community. Valles said she would focus on administrative tasks and community-building, and would not take on the drug cartels.
Even so, she reportedly became the target of a campaign of intimidation. Mexican papers reported Friday that Valles fled the town and was seeking asylum in the United States after receiving death threats, but city officials released a statement claiming Valles was only traveling across the border for a brief stay to get her young son medical attention. They said she would be back on the job by this morning. When she didn't show up, they fired her.
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The idiots allowed her to take it because no one else would.
I suppose she figured if she promised to leave the Cartels alone they would leave her alone.
She got fooled on that one.
Mexico doesn’t have a Government at this time, just people who claim to hold office.Calderon spends more time here fellating Obama (or Vice Versa) than he spends in Mexico, and is doing nothing to bring law and order back to his own country.
Let her in. She can stay with me...
Maybe this was the plan all along.
Maybe Obama should stop inviting Calderon to visit as head of state and invite the cartel chiefs instead since they are running Mexico anyway.
It’s a shame to see a pretty face disfigured by butt ugly glasses. Makes me think of when mini-skirts were dumped for midi-skirts.
Yuck !
That said, she was very brave to take the job in the beginning. Methinks she just wised up.
Eh, they're not so bad, especially when you think about her taking them off....
If she’s no danger to the drug dealers, why does she fear them?
If you read my response, I did say that she was probably being effective. That’s why they turned their attention to her.
Ping!
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“If she’s no danger to the drug dealers, why does she fear them?”
Cause they threatened her and they have a pretty solid record on following through on their threats.
Maybe not. I think that some other Freepers on this thread are on to an interesting angle.
Who didn’t see this coming? The drug cartels control the territory down there. Her male predecessors have been executed. And she vowed not to carry a gun.
Yeah, right.
This isn’t a game, people. This isn’t some political discussion, it’s war.
Stupid PC, soft cushy, “maybe a woman’s way will fix things” BS. The drug lords don’t play. They killed all of her predecessors.
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