Meet Guadalupe’s 20-Year-Old Police Chief

21 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone in Crime, Politics, Tequila

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Marisol Valles, 20-year-old criminology student, recently became police chief of Guadalupe, one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico – because no-one else wanted the job. Guadalupe is second only to Juarez in terms of violence; Valles was “the only person willing to accept the position.”

The city’s previous mayor was murdered in June; public officials are increasingly becoming targets of the cartels, to the extent that police beheadings are thought of as ‘common’. The Guadalupe mayor’s office has one police patrol car. A local newspaper asked the Valles if she feared for her life, to which she responded:

Afraid? Everyone is afraid and it’s very natural. What motivates me here is that the project is very good and can do a lot for my town. I know that we are going to change and remove this.

Hot damn.

[via Yahoo]
[Image via News.com.au]

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