twenty-year-old Garcia is the brand new sheriff in community

The newest law enforcement chief within the violent Mexican community of Guadalupe Distrito Bravo in the state of Chihuahua is Garcia. Valles Garcia was the only person who would accept the position after numerous of the town’s officers had lost their lives or been taken hostage. The youthful female, a 20-year-old studying criminology, started enforcing the law on Wednesday.

Drug cartels have twenty yr old female taking a stand to them

Mayor Jose Luis Guerrero asked Marisol Valles Garcia to become law enforcement chief. CNN reports that she gladly accepted. In one of one of the most chaotic towns in Chihuahua, Valles Garcia envisions a non-violent role for her 13-member force, which is mostly female and does not carry guns. Cable News Network reports her saying that her principles and values are her weapons in Spanish. Valles Garcia said her goal is to set up crime prevention programs in neighborhoods and schools, achieve security in public places and encourage cooperation among neighbors to form watch committees.

Drug gangs combating each other

The Municipio of Guadalupe Distrito Bravo in northern Chihuahua along the TX border has seen heavy battling between the Sinaloa cartel and also the La Linea gang for control of smuggling routes, according to MSNBC. Three Guadalupe Distrito Bravo officials are killed since the gang war broke out in 2008. Apparently drug cartels are out at night, Guadalupe residents say. They go through town in SUVs and pickups with assault rifles. The assistant mayor of nearby El Porvenir and the mayor of Guadalupe were killed shortly before Valles Garcia took office.

The Mexican law enforcement problem

In Mexican towns, they are usually killed or scared away. If that doesn’t occur, then usually they get fired or arrested for cooperating with the drug cartels. The Associated Press reports that officials say low wages and inferior weaponry add to the issue. The main roads are now patrolled by federal law enforcement and soldiers. Of course, they are all worried to hit Guadalupe, or towns like it, that the drug traffickers control.

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CNN

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MSNBC

msnbc.msn.com/id/39760545/ns/world_news-americas/

Associated Press

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