Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Garcia, twenty, police chief of chaotic Mexican city

A youthful university student, Marisol Valles Garcia, has accepted the job of police chief in Guadalupe Distrito Bravo, a town in the middle of Chihuahua, a Mexican state plagued by drug violence. The only person willing to man up after a number of kidnappings and killings of police officers had been Valles Garcia. Law enforcement in Guadalupe became the responsibility of the 20-year-old criminology university student as of Wednesday. Article source – Marisol Valles Garcia, 20, police chief of violent Mexican town by Personal Money Store.

Drug cartels get stood up to by twenty yr old female

CNN reports Marisol Valles saying that she had been happy to become police chief when asked by Mayor Jose Luis Guerrero to. Valles Garcia is the chief in one of the most violent towns in Chihuahua. She hopes that her 13-member force won’t have to carry guns as non-violence is expected. CNN accounts her saying that her principles and values are her weapons in Spanish. Valles Garcia said her goal is to establish crime prevention programs in neighborhoods and schools, achieve security in public places and encourage cooperation among neighbors to form watch committees.

Fighting drug gangs

MSNBC reports the Sinaloa cartel and also the La Linea gang have been fighting about the control of smuggling routes which is occurring within the Municipio of Guadalupe Distrito Bravo in northern Chihuahua on the TX Border. Three Guadalupe Distrito Bravo officials have been killed since the gang war broke out in 2008. Evidently drug cartels are out at night, Guadalupe residents say. They have assault rifles they go via town with. They’re generally in SUVs and pickups too. Right before Valles Garcia took office, the mayor of Guadalupe and the assistant mayor of El Porvenir were both killed.

What’s wrong with Mexican law enforcement

Police forces are arrested or fired before due to cooperating with drug cartels, which is the only way to keep away from being killed or scared away in Mexican towns. According to the Associated Press, the issue gets worse. The wages are too low and there is inferior weaponry. Recently soldiers and federal police have taken over patrols on main roads, however they’re afraid to venture down unfamiliar dirt roads leading to towns like Guadalupe that are owned by the drug traffickers.

Data from

CNN

cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/20/mexico.female.police.chief/index.html?npt=NP1

MSNBC

msnbc.msn.com/id/39760545/ns/world_news-americas/

Associated Press

npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130704308



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