This week I was surprised to hear about 20-year old Marisol Valles Garcia who became the police chief in a town near drug cartel capital Juarez, Mexico. Nobody else applied for the job as everyone is afraid of the recent killings of police officers, including the former mayor of Guadalupe. It is admirable that Marisol, despire being afraid as everyone else is of the drug cartels, would take on this job motivated by the desire to make her community a safer living place.
More than 28,000 people have died in Mexico due to the country's drug violence since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartel's in 2006.
Link to site: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101020/wl_yblog_upshot/college-student-named-police-chief-in-violence-plagued-mexican-town-after-no-one-else-would-apply
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