Monday, March 7, 2011

The 20 year old student police chief of a Mexican city into exile in the U.S.

Marisol Valles, a student who was appointed police chief of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero, a town of 10,000 inhabitants located in Chihuahua State last October because other candidates had sought political asylum in the United States after threats. Marisol Valles, 20 years, "visited the United States with two members of his family and applied for political asylum because she received death threats from a gang of criminals who wanted make him work for them, "said the relative who requested anonymity.

In October, Marisol criminology student in Ciudad Juarez, a distance of 60 km, had accepted the heavy burden: the mayor of Guadalupe Praxedis Guerrero was assassinated in June, along with his son. Marisol Valles departure for the United States came after the Dec. 26 kidnapping of Erika Gandara, the only municipal police from a nearby village, and whose whereabouts are unknown.

Ciudad Juarez, the main town in the state of Chihuahua with more than one million inhabitants, bordering the United States, is the most violent in Mexico with more than 3,100 deaths in 2010.

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