BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS
Inside Mexican beauty contest where drug lords like El Chapo pick brides & queens are kidnapped, murdered & shot by cops
Updated: 26 Feb 2021, 16:08
FLASHING a smile as she was crowned Miss Sinaloa 2012, Maria Susana Flores told the audience: “You cannot change your past. But you can choose today what your future will be.”
Nine months later, she died in a hail of bullets from Mexican soldiers after getting caught up in a brutal drugs war.
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Maria Susana Flores was shot dead by Mexican soldiers in a gun battleCredit: AP:Associated Press
Maria - known as Susy - is just one of the many winners of the Mexican beauty contest whose coveted crown has led them into a life of drugs, guns and murder.
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