Has Garcia Fled Mexico?
It may have taken a little over three months for savage animals in the Mexican drug cartels to get rid of the Chief of Police for the battle-torn Mexican towns of PrĂ¡xedis Guadalupe Guerrero and El Porvenir, Marisol Valles Garcia.
A relative reported that she and two relatives – likely her husband and infant son – had fled to America after receiving received death threats.
Praxedis G. Guerrero town secretary Andres Morales, however, said that this report had not been confirmed and was merely rumor. Morales claimed that Garcia had requested some time off to attend to personal matters concerning the health of her infant son, and that she was expected back to work soon.
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With conflicting reports, both of dubious origin, I find it impossible to guess whether or not Marisol Valles Garcia and her family have fled to America. I hope so though since what the cartel vermin would do to her and her infant son doesn’t bear dwelling upon.
Some will say that her fleeing Mexico was an act of cowardice. I disagree. When a person takes over a police force of 13 agents – 9 of which are unarmed women – 1 working patrol car, 3 automatic rifles and a single pistol, it cannot be rightly called cowardice to not go up against either the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels or to flee the area when presented by them with an untenable offer.
Tags: Crime | Drug Culture | Drugs | Marisol Valles | Mexico | Police | Politics
March 5th, 2011 at 9:12 am
Freakin hey! I’d have bailed. Some tough jobs are exactly that tough, others are truly mission impossibles and ya gotta pack it in.
March 5th, 2011 at 9:28 am
I wouldn’t have taken the job in the first place, Alfie. The Mexicans don’t deserve a savior. They proved that when they stopped being able to find “men” to be police officers.
I’m not saying that women shouldn’t be cops. I’m saying that a strongly patriarchal society such a Mexico which can’t find men to step up and be men by their own standards – or even our looser ones – is past saving and deserves neither aid or sympathy.