It should as no surprise to anyone that drug cartels have made many parts of Mexico violent, dangerous places that lead residents to seek refuge elsewhere. What might come as a surprise, though—well, at least it did to me—is just how bad it is.
When a police chief, Erika Gandara of Guadalupe, can be abducted and remain missing for a month and a half … it’s, well, bad. When she’s dragged out her home in …
Despite Estee Lauder’s evident view to the contrary, Ciudad Juarez is arguably Mexico’s darkest blot, a place where women walk violence-riddled streets to work ridiculous hours in sweatshops. And now the mother of a woman whose daughter succumbed to this city of blood, drugs, rape, and horror, has turned up dead herself after a two year war to avenge her daughter’s death.
Neighboring Praxedis G. Guerrero has upped the ante …
Okay, so here’s Tiffany Hartley’s story: On September 30th, she and her husband, David, were sightseeing on Falcon Lake in Texas. Things got ugly fast, though, when they crossed into Mexican waters on their jet skis to look at a church. A speedboat full of gunmen in an area that has a number of “pirating” incidents pursued them, presumably to pillage their Polaris. Her husband was shot in the head, and his body has not yet been recovered. These evil pirates held a gun on Tiffany Hartley as well, if she’s to be believed, then just randomly decided to speed off.
Oh yeah, and this is evidently Barack Obama’s fault.
Tiffany Hartley, the wife of David Hartley who was allegedly shot and killed by Mexican pirates on a border lake with Texas, is telling President Obama that it’s time to take on drug cartels.
“He should wake up and look what’s going on in our backyards,” she told the Denver Post.
Hartley says her husband’s death should be a focal point as to why the U.S. should take on these drug cartels.
At first glance, Marisol Valles Garcia appears to be an average 20-year-old college student: young, vivacious, and hardworking, yet she’s anything but average. Currently, she is being hailed as the bravest woman in Mexico.
Valles Garcia, a criminology major, has just (as in this week) been named the chief of police of Praxedis G. Guerrero, an area …
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