When I read last week that she had taken off to the US for “personal reasons” I knew she wasn’t ever planning on going back and who can blame her?

Mexico police chief Marisol Valles seeks US asylum
bbc.co.uk

Mexico’s youngest police chief, Marisol Valles Garcia, has fled to the US after apparently receiving death threats, US immigration officials have confirmed.

She attracted worldwide attention last year when she became police chief of a border town plagued by drug violence after no-one else dared take the job.

She is now seeking asylum in the US after fleeing across the border into Texas.

Ms Valles was sacked from her post on Monday for being absent without leave.

The criminology student was hailed as Mexico’s bravest woman in October when she became head of public security in the border town of Praxedis G Guerrero at the age of 20.

She’s cute and ballsy. I say we keep her.