Mexico’s youngest woman police chief, Marisol Valles Garcia rumored to be seeking asylum in U.S. receiving death threats from drug cartels

I reported on this story in October and said this woman puts every man in that town to shame. She was the only one with the courage to step up.


I would snuggle Marisol over the border myself if I could and defend her to stay here.

CBS News reports that after the police chief in the small Mexican town of Praxedis was kidnapped in 2009, and his head deposited outside the police station a few days later, no one stepped up to fill his shoes until Marisol Valles Garcia, a 20-year-old mother and student agreed to fill the vacancy.

"I took the risk because I want my son to live in a different community to the one we have today. I want people to be able to go out without fear, as it was before," Valles said during her swearing-in ceremony last October.

Now the woman called Mexico's bravest woman reportedly has fled and is seeking asylum in the United States.
Mexico's Bravest Woman Replaces Beheaded Police Chief

A relative told Agence France-Presse on Thursday that Valles Garcia "received death threats from a criminal group that wanted to force her to work for them," and that she "went to the United States along with two relatives and will seek asylum."

However, an official from the town of Praxedis, which is across the border from Fort Hancock in Texas, denied that their police chief was leaving.

Town secretary Andres Morales told the El Paso Times that Valles Garcia had asked for some personal days off to tend to her child, but is expected to be back at work on Monday.

As for the reports of her seeking asylum, "Right now, these are rumors," he said.

Valles Garcia's departure comes just a few months after Erika Gandara, the only law officer in the border town of Guadalupe, was kidnapped, her whereabouts still unknown.

Let her in!