Mexico town fires its bravest woman

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CSMonitor

[quote]Marisol Valles Garcia, the 20-year-old police chief who made international headlines as the bravest woman in Mexico, was fired Monday, reportedly after fleeing to the United States to escape death threats.

Mexico, it seems, has lost another hero to the drug war.

The criminology student who is raising a young son had taken the job in October when no one else would apply, and after the previous chief of the small town of Praxedis G. Guerrero had been beheaded. In recent months she shifted law enforcement's approach toward an emphasis on prevention through increased police presence in the street. But fierce intimidation apparently took its toll in a town overrun by traffickers in the violent Juárez Valley, just 35 miles south of Ciudad Juárez.

“The mayor has decided to remove the official from her post after she did not return on the day agreed and did not notify [us] about prolonging her period of absence,â€