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NEW LINK/ GUARDIAN/ MORE DETAILS/ NEW PIX/In the violent border state of Chihuahua, a 20-year-old criminology student has been named a police chief and is being called Mexico's bravest woman.
Marisol Valles is the new top cop in Praxedis Guerrero. She heads a force of just 13 agents,
nine of them women, with one working patrol car, three automatic rifles and a pistol.
Asked if she feared for her safety, she replied: "Here everyone is frightened." But she added: "We are going to exchange this fear for security."
