Marisol Valles García the University of Guadalajara, was the only person willing to accept the job. She was sworn in on 18 October 2010. This attracted international attention, and has prompted news media to call her the "bravest woman in Mexico". Within two weeks Valles Garcia began receiving threatening phone calls with offers to work for the cartels. On March 1, 2011, she received a threat of kidnapping from a man who had harassed her for nearly four months. The same day Valles Garcia and her family fled to America to seek asylum. She has since received a work permit in America. She
Jerry Garcia encouraged Garcia in his drawing and painting skills. Hedrick also introduced Garcia to the fiction of Jack Kerouac, whom Garcia later cited as a major influence. In June of the same year, Garcia graduated from the local Menlo Oaks school. He then moved with his family back to San Francisco, where they lived in an apartment above the newly built bar, the old one having previously been torn down to make way for a freeway entrance. Two months later, on Garcia's fifteenth birthday, his mother bought an accordion for him, to his great disappointment. Garcia had long been captivated by