AFP: A 20-year-old female criminology student has been named police chief of a northern Mexican border town plagued by drug violence because no one else wanted the job. Marisol Valles became director of municipal public security of Guadalupe “since she was the only person to accept the position”, the mayor’s office of the town of some 10,000 people near the US border told local media yesterday. […] More than 28,000 people have died nationwide in suspected drug violence since December 2006, when the Mexican government launched an offensive against its criminal gangs with the deployment of some 50,000 troops. The Guadalupe mayor’s office has only one police patrol car and receives security assistance from the army.

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AFP:

A 20-year-old female criminology student has been named police chief of a northern Mexican border town plagued by drug violence because no one else wanted the job.

Marisol Valles became director of municipal public security of Guadalupe “since she was the only person to accept the position”, the mayor’s office of the town of some 10,000 people near the US border told local media yesterday.

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More than 28,000 people have died nationwide in suspected drug violence since December 2006, when the Mexican government launched an offensive against its criminal gangs with the deployment of some 50,000 troops.

The Guadalupe mayor’s office has only one police patrol car and receives security assistance from the army.

(Source: maxistentialist)

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