Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from Debate
July 7, 2017
This is when the beauty of women and organized crime set aside the line that divides them and decide to join, here is one of many cases.
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The detainees were secured with two AR-15 rifles, three pistols, 633 cartridges of various calibers, 16 cell phones and almost $ 100,000 in cash. Several more criminals were arrested not seen here in this photo.
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| When a Beauty Queen Becomes a Narco Queen |
Exposed for their beauty or excited by the thought of a life of luxuries and eccentricities, the participants in beauty contests are seen by the world of drug trafficking as easy prey, and are often seen by criminals as trophies who then among themselves become delinquent.
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| Miss Sinaloa 2012: Maria Susana Flores Gamuz |
Sinaloa woman María Susana Flores Gámez, Sinaloa Woman 2012, met a final tragic end and died at age 22 as if she were a hit man during a clash between Sinaloa Cartel members that she was traveling with and Mexican soldiers. She had a gun in her hands, according to a former official of the Attorney General's Office, it was reported that the alleged narco-traffickers took refuge behind Flores Gámez, as if she was being used as a human shield. She got out of the vehicle in the midst of the shootout near her hometown of Guamuchil in November 2012.
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| A Narco Queen Buried in her Winning Evening Gown |
Flores Gámez was buried in the gala dress with which she received her crown as Mujer Sinaloa 2012, in addition to her crown and her scepter.
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| Miss Sinaloa 2008 Laura Zuniga: Mexican Representative for Miss International |
The list does not end because years later appeared a beautiful girl named Laura Elena Zuñiga, who won for her beauty the title of Miss Sinaloa 2008.
Nuestra Belleza Sinaloa 2008 was arrested in Zapopan along with Ángel García Urquiza, one of the alleged leaders of the Juárez cartel. Laura Zúñiga was to represent Mexico in Miss International.
The arrest took place in a blockade that the Army and the State Police jointly mounted in streets of the Colonia Residencial Poniente, after receiving an anonymous complaint that alerted the presence of alleged members of the Juárez cartel in the municipality of Zapopan . Five firearms and a large amount of dollars were secured in the operation.
According to authorities, at the time of her arrest, Laura Elena Zuniga Huizar said she and her companions planned to go shopping in Bolivia and Colombia. In Sinaloa, her father told them that the models had traveled to Guadalajara to an inn.
In subsequent statements, Laura Elena said that she was unaware of the criminal activities of her boyfriend, the brother of "El Doctor", Ricardo Garcia Urquiza, former leader of the Juarez Cartel who had been apprehended in 2005 by the PGR. He had replaced Rodolfo Carillo Fuentes who was executed by an armed commando in Culiacan, Sinaloa. Laura Elena claimed to have been kidnapped and now only prays for her safety.
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