MEXICO - Brave, but not reckless

On October 20, when Marisol García Valles, 20, had accepted the position of director of police in the municipality of Pradexis G. Guerrero Chihuahua - considered one of the most violent in Mexico - the world's media had described as "the bravest woman in Mexico." Four months later, the young heroine seems to have thrown in the towel.

According to El Universal, she is with her family in a secret location in the United States where she requested political asylum. On 2 March she had requested leave to go nurse her son in the U.S., but has not resumed work on March 7 as planned. Pradexis Mayor then announced that the laid off for dereliction of duty ...

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