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发帖数: 27535 | 1 The AP reports that 21-year-old Marisol Valles has been fired from her post
as police chief of the violent town of Praxedis G. Guerrero when she didn't
show up for work this morning. She is reportedly seeking asylum in the
United States after receiving death threats from drug cartels. She may have
difficulty making an asylum case, though, since U.S. immigration officials
typically approve such request on the basis of political threats to an
applicant's life or well-being, and Mexican drug violence is obviously not
state-sanctioned.
Valles was hailed as the bravest woman in Mexico for agreeing to head up the
town's police force when no one else applied for the job in October.
Warring local drug gangs had beheaded other city officials--but Valles, a
criminology student, said she overcame her fear for the good of her
community. Valles said she would focus on administrative tasks and community
-building, and would not take on the drug cartels.
Even so, she reportedly became the target of a campaign of intimidation.
Mexican papers reported Friday that Valles fled the town and was seeking
asylum in the United States after receiving death threats, but city
officials released a statement claiming Valles was only traveling across the
border for a brief stay to get her young son medical attention. They said
she would be back on the job by this morning. When she didn't show up, they
fired her.
A Chihuahua state human rights official named Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson
told El Pais that Valles received death threats over the phone before
fleeing. He said a local government employee accompanied her to the
international bridge that crosses into Fort Hancock, Texas on Thursday. Her
plan, according to the official, was to seek asylum.
The United States doesn't often deviate from the political criteria for
granting asylum. In addition to proving a government-based threat,
successful asylum applicants must show that the persecution stems from their
race, religion, nationality, political views or membership in a particular
social group.
Women officials have not been spared in the country's brutal drug violence.
In Bravos, Mexico 28-year-old Érika Gándara was given the chief of
police job by her uncle, the mayor, after no one applied. According to a
report in the New York Times, she was taken from her home in December by
armed gunmen and hasn't been seen since. Hermila García, appointed police
chief of Meoqui, was killed in November after only a month on the job.
(Valles: AP) | h****d
发帖数: 1420 | 2 民主国家好啊
警察局长受到舆论监督,不合格被拿下.
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