How Fairy Tales Really End? Young Mexican Police Chief Flees to US
Posted by red pill junkie at 16:45, 20 May 2011
I guess I this had been a Disney movie, the ending would have been a tad different...
Some time ago I wrote about a young college girl, Marisol Valles, who decided to accept a job nobody wanted: chief of police of her hometown. It was a story that sounded surreal and a bit out of place amid all the depressive news of violence caused by the organized crime; but in a sense, it kind of give the Mexican people a sense of hope —hope that there were still young idealists with the courage to stand up and help steer the course of the nation.
Alas, it was not to be:
She served the town of Praxedis for a few short months. Then came the death threats.
"They threatened to kill me, my family, my baby boy. I was scared ... couldn't even sleep ... always wondering, when are they coming to get me."
Unfortunately, fear and intimidation have scored another victory along the U.S.-Mexican border, and Valles Garcia is now in the United States, pleading for political asylum.
Armed with only her ideals —and ZERO or money support from the State government— she sought to make a difference and not let Fear win.
She speaks for the people she's left behind in that beautiful but violent Mexican valley.
"Don't ever lose hope," she said in a message to them. "Continue fighting for your children. I'm sorry I had to leave, but it's better to be safe and alive here ... than to be dead in Mexico."
[Source]
So what's the moral of the tale here? That Fear will always win? That to dream for a better world is naive?
...Or maybe that we shouldn't leave our kids alone to fight our fucking wars for us.
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28 November 2004
1 year 42 weeks
Thanks for this update! I remember reading your first post and it excited me very much. To figure a young woman willing to do such a thing amist all the dangers, willing to put her life on the line for the greater good... Oh wait nevermind.
Honestly, what did she expect? A cake ride in the sheriff's office? 15 minutes of fame? And if she had a kid before she took office that may have been a very dumb idea from the beginning. Well it's all ok now because she lives in the US and prolly wanted to be here the whole time because you know... This is the land of opportunity and all.
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
It was definitely my duty to give an update on that situation.
Like you, this sad development causes me a lot of ambivalence: on the one side I understand the terrible position this young lady found herself in; on the other hand, her foolishly naive attitude bothers me --Idealism is NOT enough! You need to arm yourself with material resources beside your moral qualities. There has to be a middle ground between Complicity and Martyrdom, one that allows you not to betray your conscience.
She first began as a symbol of hope, and now she's a symbol of hypocrisy --oh, how EASY it is to ask for peace from the safety of political asylum.
Frankly, I do not know how I would have acted if I had been if her shoes. I do not know what decisions I would have made instead.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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28 November 2004
1 year 42 weeks
Her fleeing to the US is what really gets me. Besides the fear, besides the death threats, I imagine there are many other options than asylum. This also would have helped her avoiding such media. I find it all suspicious, like I do all things. What will happen if all their sherifs seek asylum? Or police officers?
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
OK, the border was closer. But why if instead asylum she had gone to the capital to demand an audience with president Calderón? That way she would have cast way too much public light on her, and that would have defended her from any possible threats.
The government wouldn't have risk her to become another martyr in the war. And she could have stayed in the city and become involved with some NGO or something.
There were options, I believe. But I might as well be completely wrong since obviously I don't possess all the facts.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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28 November 2004
1 year 42 weeks
I guess she should be happy I'm not her case worker then. It's all about fearing death, which I and I hope many others believe is such a terrifying thing, to be fearful of something so inevitable surely misleads us. Well maybe it's more cowardice since she did sign up for the job. Eh whatever...
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
It's tough, because all of us has his or her personal Room 101. Fear of death as an abstract concept is one thing, but fear of dismemberment or decapitation or gang-rape... well, you get the picture.
To add insult to injure, nowadays there is a TV series intended to serve as propaganda for the Police, called El Equipo (the team), which is particularly annoying because it shows a complete fantasy --the police officers having access to top-of-the-line equipment, good salaries... ugh
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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28 November 2004
1 year 42 weeks
Maybe there will be more of that now that there's no sheriff. Who knows. Maybe Mexico will turn into a mimic of Africa and they'll turn to little girls without anyone to protect them. Maybe.
Maybe the Mexican A-team can teach them drug cartels what's up. American versions aren't any better, but people do seem to like drama. You're as free as the law allows you to be.
P.s. Can't remember if I've mentioned this before but I am a vet (with a few minor disabilities) and I've seen many cowards. I do not like them. Everything else is an excuse and words.
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
I do seem to recall it, and that's why I always appreciate your opinion on these matters. Because it's all too easy for me to sit on my fat ass and write all from an hypothetical perspective, without the thought of how I would soil myself if someone were to point a gun in my face ;)
PS: To be honest, only once have I experienced that (being pointed with a pistol). I was in my early teens and with one of my cousins, and the experience was of a very surreal quality, like I was in a dream. And I didn't actually experience fear, not once; but I'm sure that wold not repeat itself if it happened again.
PPS: What you didn't mention was that about your minor disabilities. I'm very sorry about that :(
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It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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28 November 2004
1 year 42 weeks
Likewise, RPJ. Always a pleasure sharing ideals with someone who has the ability to comprehend others perspectives. That story about someone holding you at gun point Is terrible, when it comes to being verbally or physically threatened an aspect of our internal self shows through, however rare the occurrence, with that we get a sense of instinct that is so powerfully primal some people don't know what to do with it. Some people get scared, some people get angry, for the intelligent ones we learn how to harness this state and control it and bring it to our consious level, those who don't become victimized. And no worries about my injuries, typical knee and back stuff from falling from high places.
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
2 May 2004
6 hours 35 min
Do the good-looking police officers use futuristic touch-screen computers like on CSI? It's insulting that the producers think anyone will buy the spin -- and doubly insulting because people do buy it.
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@levitatingcat
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
It's actually triple insulting, since the production of the series has the full cooperation of the Security forces and the government. They get to film facilities and equipment that are not accessible to private citizens.
All with a very definite purpose: to enroll more recruits for this pinche war, which they know will still last a very, very long time :-/
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It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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2 May 2004
6 hours 35 min
...Or maybe that we shouldn't leave our kids alone to fight our fucking wars for us.
This sums it up for me. Valles was used as cannon fodder by authorities, and I have no doubt they were thinking, "no one will dare kill someone so young and pretty, and if the drug lords do assassinate her, imagine the global publicity!!"
I applaud Valles's determination, but -- and this pains me, because I've always been an idealist -- the reality is it was always going to end with her death or her fleeing the country. This isn't Hollywood -- heroes end up in shallow graves, not with medals pinned to their chests by thankful politicians.
The problem with the Mexico drug war is that you can throw a rock in the air and you'll hit someone guilty. Mexico has become a latin Africa, an issue no foreign country wants to get involved in, even if it sits on their doorstep and is spilling over their borders. Where do you begin to clean up the mess? With the drug lords, or the people in America, Europe, Australia who snort the product?
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@levitatingcat
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
My personal assessment is that this is primarily an economic result of the huge disparity between the privileged few, and the people who have nothing. Add to that a lack of proper education and job opportunities, coupled with the lack of respect and power women have in our society, and you have a stew that's been cooking for the past 75 years or so. And now we have to eat it.
But, in the mean time, I'd suggest that my government would shift its strategy and deal first with two problems:
a)The way the arms that come from the Unites States find their way to the hands of the cartels; and
b)Attacking all the companies, hedge funds, investment groups, and banks, that are involved in the money laundry of the organized crime. This to me is far more important than trying to deal with all the low-level crooks in the streets.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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17 February 2010
23 weeks 6 days
That is a tough question. I think that the "war" on the drugs (a.k.a. the war on personal freedom as Mr. Hicks so aptly put it) is about as futile as an actual war against these gangs on a street level. Your suggestions seem much more reasonable. And as for the US involvement, I think a change in drug policy could alleviate no end of suffering on both sides of the border. It would interrupt a good portion of the drug money flowing south if people could simply grow cannabis in their backyard, as nature intended. Of course, this ties into your second point as well. The US organized crime rings known as the FDA and DEA don't like it when you attack their cash flow either. "FDA approved" is a synonym for "FDA bribed." No money in actual health and progress, sadly.
And as for your original post, this is extremely disheartening and confusing. One one hand, her courage is inspiring; I couldn't help but feel moved by your first post. But after watching the interview... I mean, she hired unarmed women to fight organized crime with... hope? I could almost laugh, if it weren't so tragic. If she really wanted tranquility for her child, what did she expect? I don't mean to judge, it's just that the whole situation is so infuriating. I suppose she's got bigger balls than I do, at any rate...
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
I agree with you. It's so hard not to be judgmental. And yet it's all matter of "walking if someone else's shoes" right?
It also reminds me of the recent speech Calderón gave in the US, when he criticized the people who were moving to legalize drugs. Well OBVIOUSLY he wouldn't like it when he invested all his political capital on some mindless Crusade and suddenly there were a change of course.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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17 February 2010
23 weeks 6 days
Right. I had heard before the elections that Obama would be more lenient on drugs. I mean, he's a far cry from Nixon or Reagan (at least outwardly), so I had some small bit of hope he would be able to drop that torch, considering it burnt out before it even began. I was talking about this with my sister, and she said it's been going on so long the administration likely just refuses to suck up their pride and admit defeat. She might be right. They wouldn't even have to admit that it was a doomed effort to begin with, or the cost in lives and money, etc. Just give it up all ready; I think we're all ready to move on.
28 June 2006
2 weeks 14 hours
Red Pill,
The cowards are the people who threatened to kill a baby boy, her baby boy! The people and nation states in this world who use weapons and violence get their own way and are afraid of confronting other people and other nation states on level playing fields are the Yellow Belly Cowards of this would!
Ms. Valles Garcia is brave; but, she is a bit young and foolish like we once were! It took guts to even try to do that job! Let the person on TDG that would have taken the job throw the first stone!
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Critically Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think Critically!!!}
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
I agree with you. That's why all of us who have commented here are suffering from conflicting feelings with this. Because to criticize her is an act of hypocrisy in itself. And yet we cannot say we agree 100% with the way she handled all this.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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28 November 2004
1 year 42 weeks
cow·ard Noun /ˈkou-ərd/
cowards plural
A person who lacks the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things
Doesn't sound like someone who fires automatic weapons in the middle of the day out in the public to me. Nope. She IS a coward. Maybe that's why the rapture never happened!? There's so much compassion in the world Jesus figured why bother, they got this shit under control.
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
Wait --you mean you guys aren't typing right now from the comfort of your personal cloud? ooh sucks to be you, then :P
True courage comes not from not feeling scared, but from mastering your fear. My hope is that we haven't yet heard the last thing from Marisol, and that she will find a way to reclaim the ideals she was forced to betray later in life.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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28 November 2004
1 year 42 weeks
I fell victim to last minute hypocrisy XD
http://www.explosm.net/comics/2431/
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
14 April 2009
7 weeks 5 days
That's a good one :3 It reminds me of my favourite WKRP episode
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
28 June 2006
2 weeks 14 hours
Inannawhimsey,
Wild Turkeys can fly 50 miles an hour, 80 kilometers an hour, and Domesticated Turkeys can fly at much slower speeds. But, Domesticated Turkeys are too stupid to know when to fly and Wild Turkeys aren't much more intelligent!
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Critically Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think Critically!!!}
28 June 2006
2 weeks 14 hours
Red Pill,
I'm certain that the world has not heard the last of Marisol Valles Garcia! There is no doubt in my mind that she will ultimately fulfill her destiny!
But, this begs the question of her reasons for running, "Why did she run?". Did the criminal cowards begin by threatening to kill her son and her family or did they begin by threatening to kill her? Is it possible that threats to kill her didn't make her run? Is it possible that the criminal cowards threatened to kill her son and her family; because, threats to kill her didn't make her run? Is it possible that she ran to protect her son and her family? Is it possible that Marisol Valles Garcia is a good mother?
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Critically Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think Critically!!!}
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
A good mother is a person who ensures the safety of her family. But then, is a great mother someone who ensures the safety of her whole neighborhood/town/city/country?
Are single persons the only ones who can make a difference, then? does the responsibility of looking after your small tribe supersedes all other considerations.
You know, I bet there are some drug dealers who would tell you they are great parents, because they are able to provide to their families with everything they need. Ditto the corrupt cops who take bribes in order to make ends meet...
Ah, what do I know? I'm not a parent myself.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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28 June 2006
2 weeks 14 hours
Red Pill,
But, the vast majority of mothers, will put their children's welfare first and the same can be said for the vast majority of fathers. It's a parental instinct that I have observed over the years. My parents didn't have this instinct and, like you, I don't have any children. So, I don 't know anything either; but, I have observed this instinct in parents for over 50 years. I began observing it in other parents when I realized that my parents were different, very different.
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Critically Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think Critically!!!}
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
But, if it is an instinct, shouldn't it be tempered by intellect, the way we rein in all of our passions and biological impulses?
My point was that many people think that by looking after their little personal herd they fulfill their role of good persons. I dispute that.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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28 June 2006
2 weeks 14 hours
Red Pill,
We are not talking about an experienced mature adult. We are talking about a 20 year old girl. I honestly believe that she will redeem herself in the long run. But, in the short run, this must be understood in context. We are talking about a sweet young girl with high ideals who has just lost her innocence and it's going to take her a little time to deal with it! I think that in the long run, a year or two, this is going to be a character building experience for her. Furthermore, I honestly believe that she will learn to temper her instincts with intellect. But, tempering instincts with intellect is a learning experience that requires more maturity than she seems to have at the moment and, as she matures, I think that she will learn to temper her instincts with intellect. For now, I think that we need to be understanding and we need to give Senora Garcia a chance!
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Critically Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think Critically!!!}
12 April 2007
2 hours 58 min
I can do that ;)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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28 June 2006
2 weeks 14 hours
Red Pill,
I honestly believe that Senora Garcia will make us proud of her! ~VIVA SENORA GARCIA!~
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Critically Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think Critically!!!}