As we all know, Mexico is one of the countries with the strongest drug ties in the world today.
Drug lords control streets large and small, control elections, dare to snipe the police in broad daylight, and anyone who dares to threaten to crack down on drug trafficking will be assassinated quickly.
For many Mexicans, perhaps the most promising time to "end the evil of drugs" was in 2006.
At that time, then-President Felipe Calderón had just taken office, declared war on drug dealers in a spirited manner, and led an army to raid the drug dealers' base camp.
Then, a protracted "war on drugs" began.
Since then, Calderón has become a "leader in drug control" and a banner in the hearts of some Mexicans.
However, in a recent interview, it was revealed that:
In fact, President Calderón is mexico's biggest drug lord!
This time the message has extra weight:
It was no one else who personally exposed the news, but the legendary Mexican drug lord, Sandra Avila Beltran.
Known as the "Queen of the Pacific," Avila once controlled a vast drug empire at its peak, monopolizing the drug route from Mexico to the United States.
In 2007, she was arrested by Mexican authorities on charges of drug trafficking, illegal possession of weapons and money laundering.
Subsequently, however, the charge of "drug trafficking" was dropped and he was sentenced to eight years for money laundering alone.
After she was released from prison in 2015, she kept a low profile, standing in the shadows, and no one knew her whereabouts.
Recently, however, she has returned to the public eye.
She said the Mexican government would never win the war on drugs because it was corrupt and linked to drug dealers from top to bottom.
Even hardcore drug addict former President Calderón is no exception.
"Caldron, he's the one who works with all the drug lords."
Although there have been other drug lords who have exposed Calderón before, no one can have more say than this one.
Looking through her resume for the first half of her life, you will find that this female drug lord has been colluding with the government all her life.
When we talk about drug lords, perhaps the first thing that comes to mind in many people's minds is the image of a cold and tough guy.
But Avila gained a foothold in a group of murderous men who did not blink.
And this story actually begins from the moment she was born.
Avila was born into a family of drug lords, and both of her parents are drug lords.
Her mother, Bertrand, made her footing in heroin trafficking and later followed the trend to start the cocaine business.
Her uncle is the "godfather" of the Mexican drug smuggling industry, the famous Miguel Gallardo, who is the introductory mentor of many active drug lords and even murdered agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Such a family background doomed her not to have the life of an ordinary person.
She lived in abundance, the blood and tears of ordinary people gathered into the wealth of their family, and from an early age she was an "elite education", private teachers, piano and dance lessons, and often traveled to Disney.
According to her own account, she had piles of bills at home, and the joy of childhood was to sit on the pile and count the money — so that when she grew up, she could see at a glance how much the pile of money was worth.
However, the shadow of death is everywhere.
At the age of 13, she experienced her first gunfight .
"People are walking down the street with pistols pinned to their waists, and musicians are still playing music."
"At dawn, you hear the sound of music intertwined with the sound of gunfire, converging into a symphony of killing."
All 7 of her siblings died.
Avila once tried to deviate from the drug lord's route: When her childhood friends became new drug lords, she went to college alone to study communication for three years.
However, while in college, she was kidnapped by people closely linked to drug lords.
Avila escaped death, gave up her desire to become an investigative journalist, and entered the world of drug lords according to the family's arrangement.
She became a true drug lord, growing rapidly in blood, and every step was coveted by others.
She turns out to be "talented" in this area, she is a racing driver, equestrian master and sharpshooter, but most importantly...
She is a beautiful woman who is quite good at using her strengths.
At the age of 21, Avila began dating the famous drug lord, "King of the Sky" Amado Carrillo Fuentes.
Then, her "career" began to grow by leaps and bounds.
In the midst of the scandal, she has dated the big boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel, the "king of methamphetamine", and she has a close relationship with the world's largest drug lord and most wanted "dwarf", and the founder of the Guadalajara drug cartel has also played a shooting competition with her.
And these drug lords, who have countless money beauties, see her as a work partner, not a plaything.
She was a drug lord, but she never used drugs.
"If you do, men will think you're the kind of 'sex woman' you'll never be respected."
"In this industry, women are objects, ornaments, and even necessities, but they are by no means comrades-in-arms, companions, or 'people.'"
This dangerous and beautiful woman is circling among the various drug lords.
And what has helped her career a lot is her two husbands.
She did not follow her parents' line and married another big drug lord to a strong union - instead, she took another line of collusion between officials and businessmen.
Her first husband, José Ferentes, was a marshal commander in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
As a bailiff, he had close ties to drug cartels, and even after marrying Avila, he became her weapon against dissidents.
(Stills)
The first marriage ended with the assassination of Jose.
With little time, Avila took her second husband, Rudolf Emovitzka, the head of the Mexican federal government's drug enforcement agency.
A larger umbrella meant easier and more efficient drug trafficking routes, a broader drug map, and she even had her own maritime drug transport army.
After working with the government, Avila became Mexico's leading drug lord.
Even if her second husband was later shot and killed by drug dealers for uneven sharing of the loot, she has established herself in the ten years of operation, sitting on an equal footing with the "big guys" who once had to look up to, and even stepping on them.
Then she hooked up with the big drug lord of the North Valley of Lumbia, the "tiger" Juan Diego Ramirez.
After the two became lovers, both of their careers were able to take a leap forward.
She controlled the drug route from Mexico to Colombia, opened up the water passage from Mexico to the United States, and even monopolized the drug market in the United States for a time.
"Queen of the Pacific", thus born.
There was once a song about her, "Narcocorrido", which was widely sung in Mexico, and a band that had seen Avila at the party remembered her and turned a glimpse into the inspiration for the song, and did its best to describe the dangerous and charming female drug lord image of Avila in the lyrics:
"The airport was cleared out of the forest, and drug lords, politicians and high-level military police greeted each other at this party that could only be accessed by plane.
The buzz of helicopters rang overhead, and 200 bodyguards and snipers waited.
Grim Avila strode off the helicopter, her face covered with a baseball cap and sunglasses, makeupless and untied, only holding a large AK47 in her hand.
People spontaneously dispersed for her, and a path to Guzman's table unfolded before her. ”
This song is popular all over Mexico, and it also makes Avila's name enter the life of every ordinary person.
But for drug lords, the most precious anonymity is broken, which means that it is focused on black and white, and the danger is multiplied.
In 2002, Avila made the most "stupid" decision of her life.
When her son was kidnapped, she chose to cooperate with the police.
For Avila, who deals with government police for years, asking the police for help is not a strange choice.
But she didn't think about it — she was too famous.
The Mexican government does not want any drug lord to be sung by the civilian population, and even if she has worked closely with the government before, they do not want Avila to continue to be famous.
In the end, she redeemed her son herself, but the police targeted her.
In the years since, Avila has played a "tom and jerry" game with the U.S. and Mexican police.
She had police insiders give her a message, and each time it slipped away from under the police's nose as if it were a tease.
However, even if she slipped away ten thousand times, as long as there was one negligence, she would still be brought to justice.
On September 28, 2007, Avila was drinking coffee at an upscale coffee shop in Mexico when more than 30 FBI rushed in and captured her.
In court, she denied all the allegations, claiming that she was "just an ordinary housewife who makes money selling clothes and renting out a house." ”
What surprises people is that in the end, the forces behind her actually let her clear the most serious "drug trafficking" crime, only the money laundering brought about... Eight years' imprisonment.
Most strikingly, even after her arrest, she maintained the elegance of the "Queen of the Pacific."
Before being transferred to women's prison, she persuaded investigators to let her wear makeup.
Wearing pointy high heels and skinny jeans, she smiled at the camera and laughed and chatted with the handcuffed female guard.
A newspaper reported her: "Even after going to prison, her 'big heroine attitude' has not changed." ”
The prison became her extravagant retreat, and while other inmates huddled in cramped spaces, she had a separate cell to meet guests, food, cigarettes and alcohol, while the three guards behind her seemed to be her handmaidens.
The first reporter to interview her in prison described:
"She was a prisoner in four-inch heels, dressed in custom-made clothing and jewelry, while the flattering guards around her reported the visitors' information to her, as if an ambassador had requested a visit."
Avila claims to have regained his abandoned "journalistic dream" during his captivity.
"I imagined myself as a journalist listening to the radio in my cell and then writing press releases to avoid the monotony of months of untouched contact."
But not a single day did she reflect on the blood on her hands.
At least 100,000 people have died in Mexico during the drug war over the past decade.
However, this notorious drug lord has never felt any guilt.
"We sell drugs like we sold alcohol during Prohibition. Far more people die from alcohol than from drugs. ”
In her view, Mexico's inability to tackle drug trafficking is not because of drug lords, but because of corrupt governments.
The government is the real controller behind all drug lords.
Even if the government cracks down on drugs — like former President Calderón , it's just a form of political persecution to "fight dissidents" or "kill witnesses who are not good for them."
In a land that has been completely infested with drugs, no one can uproot drugs.
For these drug lords, they — or them — don't care how many people are killed by drugs or how many are destroyed.
The more people suffer, the more money flows into their hands and becomes part of their enviable affluence.
The government and they are complicit, and even the president is their guest of honor.
Even well-known drug dealers can still escape the law, and after serving just eight years in prison, they are released from prison, appearing in newspapers and magazines, publishing books and social media.
"In Mexico, money can buy everything. It makes me happy. ”