Mexico makes history by hiring the youngest woman for the position of police chief in one the most dangerous towns in the world. Marisol Valles Garcia, a twenty-year-old criminology student, took the dangerous job because no one else was willing to take the position due to it being a common target for the drug lords. She works in a small office in Guadalupe Distrito Bravo, part of the municipality of Praxedis G Guerrero. Just recently in June, the mayor of the town, Jesus Manuel Lara Rodriguez, was killed by the drug gangs. Many police officers were also killed. The drug war between the rival gangs Sinaloa and Juarez have claimed over two thousand lives in the past year. Currently, the town is controlled by Gabino Salas Valenciano, leader of the Sinaloa cartel.
Valles Garcia is very brave, but unfortunately she lacks sufficient experience. In this case, she's probably just acting as a figurehead. No one would take her seriously. Although she proposed several ideas for crime prevention, improving neighborly relations, and cycling the police forces, there's much doubt that any of them would work. With only one police car and four officers to maintain the peace in a town of ten-thousand people, there's little hope for success in fighting the drug gangs. Like the previous police chief, she'll probably end up raped and murdered.
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