Marisol Valles Garcia, 20-Something Mexican Police Chief, Heads to New York for Play Ginger Adams Otis - New York Daily News
go to original April 8, 2013

'So Go the Ghosts of Mexico,' by Matthew Paul Olmos, is based on the daring life of the Praxedis, Mexico top cop after no man stepped up. The play premieres Thursday at New York's La MaMa at 74 E. Fourth St. (CNN)

The “bravest woman in Mexico” is coming to the mean streets of New York.

Marisol Valles Garcia — the baby-faced former police chief of a violent, drug-riddled Mexican border town — will celebrate the opening of a biographical play about her life when it opens this weekend in the East Village.

And the NYPD is ready to protect the 23-year-old, who made headlines worldwide in 2010 when she agreed to become the police chief of tiny Praxedis, Mexico, after no man in her town had the guts to step up.

... She was forced to flee Praxedis mere months after becoming police chief — taking her toddler son and husband with her — because of harassment from the drug lords. She’s now living in El Paso, Texas, and seeking asylum, according to her lawyer, Carlos Spector.

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