MEXICAN BEAUTY QUEEN PALLING WITH DRUG TRAFFICKERS LOSES 1 CROWN

                                                   

The Mexican beauty queen held on suspicion of drug and weapons violations has lost her crown in the Hispanoamerican Queen pageant. (see December 24th post for details of her arrest)
Pallin' around with suspected drug traffickers while sittin' near ammo and cash wasn't in keeping with at least some Mexican standards of queenliness.
But, fear not. Laura Zuniga, 23, is not sitting in jail tiara-less. She still holds the Miss Sinaloa title from a Mexican state beauty contest this past July. And, she placed third in the Miss Mexico contest.
Stay tuned for more from this beauty n' the drug lord story: A columnist in the Mexican newspaper Milenio wrote that there may be reason to believe her boyfriend may have had some pull in the local pageants. See the AP story here.
The Observer is reporting that Mexican politicians are now calling for an investigation into ties between the nation's beauty pageants and leading drug cartels. It is believed that the drug lords may "adopt" performers, including beauty queens. Ladies are like an accessory that evidence the drug traffickers transactional success. Read that story here.
While I would share the world's shock and awe to learn some beauty pageant people aren't taken as seriously as beauty pageant people deserve to be taken, I confess that if I possessed a crown, and an alleged Mexican drug lord who traveled with two AR-15 assault rifles, 38 specials, 9mm handguns, nine magazines, 633 cartridges asked me to give my crown to someone in particular, I would go ahead and do what the man asked. Yes I would.
PS. Maybe Mexican politicians ought to worry just a little more about drugs and guns and just a little less about thier capacity to influence beauty pageants?