Posted on 10/20/2010 12:11:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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.
[Photos: Mexico's brutal drug war]
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."
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Laz would dig that.
No doubt! Ha.
Reminds me of the Taxi episode where Latka was made a general in his home country’s army. He said it was easy to become a general. The hard part was to be a “living” general.
First lesson: O plata o plomo?
We should all pray for her. I don’t think she should do this, she sounds like a naive child.
Regardless, we should pray for her.
Maybe the United States should invade Mexico’s northern states, hunt down and kill the drug cartels, give those Mexican states Puerto Rico status, then send back all the illegals to re-colonize their own country.
Supposedly there are thousands of educated and Americanized illegals in the United States demanding amnesty and US citizenship, maybe we should put them to work rebuilding their own country instead of demanding ours.
She needs a Mossy 590 loaded with 00 sitting on the desk next to her, not a nightstick. Also, a nice .40 semi-auto with Glasers on her hip. Also, a select fire AR platform with laser and holographic sight in a rack off to her left. Body-armor with trauma plates would be good, too.
Time for a combination of Columbian and Zimbabwean rules in her town. Columbia cleaned up due to the fact that the police and military killed the narco’s. Also, use the Zimbabwe drill on them (2 fast to x ring, 1 slow to the head to make sure.)
Praying that the Good Lord keeps her safe.
Maybe her taking the job brings more attention to the huge problems they have down there.
If he survives somebody better give him a billion peso scholarship.
A very brave and no doubt idealistic young lady. I pray that God will give her protection in what appears to be a suicide mission. A larger battalion sized force of battle hardened, well armed veterans protecting her back would be handy.
Hopefully she’s not a plant by one of the cartels.
An idealistic college student who thinks they know everything, they think they are smarter than the average bear.
Is she one of those?
I believe you are referring to the Mozambique drill.
Obama is a black supremacist. He couldn’t care less about those dirty “wetbacks” but he desperately needs their votes.
“It will not end well for her.”
She may wind up dead or as President of Mexico.
Fortune favors the brave.
Best of luck to the brave young woman.
I mean her
Right now, the long is 7 days, the short is 48 hours. I’m going outside the spread with 14 days before someone drops off her head in a suitcase at the jail.
I’d hit it!
Naive children join the Armed Forces on a daily basis.
Side bet on the head in a suitcase?
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