Bob H - 11-26-2012 at 09:49 PM
This is just so sad!!
http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-beauty-queen-killed-shootout-2...
aguachico - 11-27-2012 at 08:37 AM
Was she 'doin chaka chaka' with the carteles or what?
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2012/11/sinaloa-beauty-queen-d...
QUETZALCOATL - 11-27-2012 at 12:45 PM
glad I gave up my night job workin 4 the chipendale cartel
Mexican Beauty Queen’s Death Sadly Similar to Mexican Film Plot
Gypsy Jan - 11-27-2012 at 01:32 PM
(For original story, go to: http://jezebel.com/5963603/mexican-beauty-queens-death-sadly... )
By Dodai Stewart
“Twenty-year-old Maria Susana Flores Gamez was found dead on Saturday night, with an assault rifle near her body. According to the AP: "She was with
the gang of criminals, but we cannot say whether she participated in the shootout," state prosecutor Marco Antonio Higuera said. "That's what we're
going to have to investigate."
AP writer E. Eduardo Castillo points out that Gamez's death is "at least the third instance in which a beauty queen or pageant contestants have been
linked to Mexico's violent drug gangs, a theme so common it was the subject of a critically acclaimed 2011 movie."
The film, Miss Bala, (translation: Miss Bullet) in which an aspiring beauty queen gets unwillingly involved in organized crime, happens to be Mexico's
official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of this year's Academy Awards. Javier Valdez, who wrote a book about the ties between
drug lords and beauty pageants entitled Miss Narco tells Castillo "this is a recurrent story."
In this country, often beauty pageants are seen as frivolous buffoonery, a display of conspicuous consumption and vanity. For Gamez, it may have been
a glimmer of hope in what some describe as a "climate of fear" in Mexico. Winning a state beauty contest means competing for Miss Mexico, which means
representing the country in the international Miss Universe pageant, and possibly more. But as Valdez explains, things do not always go well: "There
is a relationship, sometimes pleasant and sometimes tragic, between organized crime and the beauty queens, the pageants, the beauty industry itself,"
Valdez said.
"It is a question of privilege, power, money, but also a question of need," said Valdez. "For a lot of these young women, it is easy to get involved
with organized crime, in a country that doesn't offer many opportunities for young people."
Chicken or the egg???
thebajarunner - 11-27-2012 at 03:57 PM
Which came first, one wonders....
Was she a beautiful young thing that won, then was enamored with the fast life of the narcos.
Or, was she a sweet young thing tied in with the narcos who "arranged" for her to win?
Gives pause to ponder, does it not???
[Edited on 11-28-2012 by thebajarunner]
New Info
bajaguy - 11-27-2012 at 06:56 PM
http://news.msn.com/world/update-soldiers-say-mexico-beauty-...