Bravest Woman In Mexico Flees

Marisol Valles Garcia, the young woman who made international headlines when she became the police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico was fired this week after fleeing to Texas. The 20 year old college criminology student was called "the bravest woman in Mexico" when she agreed to take the job that was left vacant for more than a year because of the constant danger of drug cartels seeking to overtake the border city. After months of death threats, Valles Garcia was seen entering El Paso, Texas. She is now seeking asylum in the U.S.

This story illustrates how bad the drug war is in Mexico. Desperation is a motive for many courses of action in Mexico these days. Desperation led the Mexican government to hire a young woman to a dangerous position that would almost certainly lead to her death. Desperation led that same brave young woman to flee to the United States. Though it was courageous for Valles Garcia to even take the job of police chief, the odds were definitely against her. She was just 20 years old and still in college and she agreed to take on the drug gangs who could certainly kill her in an instant. The situation in Mexico calls for highly trained and courageous officials with a vast amount of experience and unfortunately Valles Garcia could not keep going with the amount of danger she was in. The question is...is there anyone who can?