Marisol Valles Garcia is now the police chief of the violent town of Guadalupe Distrito Bravo in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Numerous of the police officers within the city have been killed or abducted. The only person willing to step up had been Valles Garcia. The 20-year-old woman working on her criminology degree had been sworn in Wednesday.
20 year old woman makes taking a stand to drug cartels essential
Mayor Jose Luis Guerrero asked Marisol Valles Garcia to become law enforcement chief. CNN reports that she gladly accepted. Valles Garcia has a 13-member force which does not carry guns and is mostly female. She hopes that the force will not be violent in one of the most violent towns in Chihuahua. She spoke in Spanish to Cable News Network. She said that she was going to use principles and values as her weapons. The goals of Valles Garcia are to get more security in public places, have cooperation from watch committees in neighborhoods and get more crime prevention programs within the schools and neighborhoods.
Drug gangs battling each other
The Municipio of Guadalupe Distrito Bravo in northern Chihuahua along the Texas border has seen heavy fighting between the Sinaloa cartel and the La Linea gang for control of smuggling routes, based on MSNBC. Since the gang war started in 2008, three Guadalupe Distrito Bravo officials were killed. Residents in Guadalupe say that drug cartels are always out at night. It’s just a fact. Armed with assault rifles, they ride through town in pickups and SUVs. 2 officials were killed right before Valles Garcia took office. The individuals were the mayor of Guadalupe and also the assistant mayor of El Porvenir.
What is wrong with Mexican police
If they aren’t killed or scared away in many Mexican towns, entire law enforcement forces are fired or arrested for cooperating with drug cartels. The Associated Press reports that officials say low wages and inferior weaponry add to the issue. 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.
Citations
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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