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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She’s cute.
I wonder if she needs a deputy.
Then again......nevermind.
What a breath of common sense fresh air.
It’s certainly possible she’s a naive child.
But then, that doesn’t mean she isn’t doing the right thing. We bitch, moan and complain about all the illegals coming up from the South, so I think we should be pretty thankful SOMEONE is staying down there and trying to clean things up a bit. That’s one chick who won’t be using the crime and poverty as an excuse for invading the U.S.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Yes, I agree. I think every time he has to make nice with Mexicans, he is gritting his pointy teeth. He’s using them and they’re too dumb to know it. (But then, he’s using American blacks, too, since he’s not really one of them, either...)
Um, instead of Bambi they need martial law with a shoot on sight after dark curfew. Poor girl, I don’t think she’ll be around long.
Well fine but you are assuming those cartels do not have strong alliances with political crime lords running things north of the border. (hint: Look up the source of the McCain fortune.)
Just hope that the townspeople turn out to support (and protect) her.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't take odds on that happening, see above regarding the nature of mexico...
I hope that she will live long enough to graduate from college.
I would enjoy serving under her.
If she wanted me to serve under her I’d consider illegally immigrating down there.....
8,500 people and the only one with any nads is a 20 year old girl.
Mr. Jim Malone has some advice for her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbG5jD9dETE
Thank you for the heads’ up. Anarchy is always thought-provoking.
If she offers me a choice of all of the finest senoritas in the town, I will personally go down and clean out the city of all of the drug gangs.
I read this story yesterday — awesome!
I wish her great success.
I wish her a long life.
She could just as easily already be in one of the gangs.
That, too! Most definitely.
Hope not.
That’s what I call a ‘stimulus’ program, or what Boxer calls a ‘stim’.
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