Say hello to my little friend.
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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I give him a week before he’s bought or shot.
It will not end well for her.
Say hello to my little friend.
I give it 48 hours.
You beat me to it. You posted it while I was trying to format mine.
Nice knowing ya kid.
Is their a deathpool already?
Maybe her little sister can be mayor?
A brave woman. The Joan of Arc of Mexico...
Its time for Mexico to beef up their army and USE IT
They need a St. Joan.
Maybe it’ll take a 20 y/o girl getting whacked to wake this country up to the fact that Mexico is a failed state and as such is a threat to our national security.
Ya never know. The thugs may be so totally stunned they won’t know what to do. In any case, she deserves a lot of support and a lot of prayers for even attempting this.
Is there something about civil war and martial law that is so hard to understand?
Maybe she’s it? If not, she’s sure a symbol and I think she may be, like Joan, a rallying point for a lot of Mexicans who are simply sick of this.
Wow. Brave and hot.
She’s also a risktaker.
Right down Laz’ alley
Mexico has been trying. When Calderon came here, he sucked up to Bambi to ask for the same kind of military support that Colombia got (under Reagan and the Bushes - Clinton wanted to hand it over to the drug lords again). Obama refused.
This shows you how little Obama cares about either Mexico or US security issues.
Laz may wish to Hit It, but I bet the new police chief would hit back with that night stick. ;)
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