Sandra Ávila Beltrán
Sandra Ávila Beltrán (born October 11, 1960 in Baja California ) aka La Reina del Pacifico ( Queen of the Pacific ) is a Mexican drug trafficker who was arrested in 2007 and extradited to the United States in 2012. She is considered one of the few women to have made it into a leadership role in the Mexican drug cartels . Her story is said to have served the author Arturo Pérez-Reverte in the novel Queen of the South as a model for his character Teresa Mendoza.
Criminal career
Sandra Ávila Beltrán was born on October 11, 1960 to María Luisa Beltrán Félix and Alfonso Ávila Quintero . Her uncle is Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo , who dominated the cocaine trade in Mexico in the 1980s. Another uncle is Juan José Quintero Payán , who was extradited to the United States for drug trafficking. She is also said to have had love acquaintances with drug lords of the Sinalao cartel, such as Ismael Zambada García or Ignacio Coronel . She thus had close contacts with Mexican drug lords early on.
In the 1990s, she is said to have been an important link between the Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa and the Colombian drug cartel Norte del Valle due to a relationship with the Colombian drug lord Juan Diego Espinosa Ramirez (alias el Tigre) . Together, the couple is said to have transported cocaine on a large scale from Colombia to Mexico by sea. Sandra Ávila Beltrán is said to have been primarily concerned with money laundering.
After kidnapping her son and paying a ransom of five million US dollars, the Mexican police became aware of her. She hid under a different name from 2002. On September 28, 2007, she was arrested in Mexico City .
On August 10, 2012, Sandra Ávila Beltrán was extradited to Florida, USA, where she was charged with drug trafficking. On July 25, 2013, she was sentenced to 70 months in prison by a court in Miami, USA, but after a deal she was transferred to Mexico in August 2013, where she was immediately arrested again for money laundering and sentenced to five years in prison. She was released in February 2015 after a federal judge ruled that she could not be tried twice on the same matter.
Publicity
It is sung in Narcocorridos as La Reina del Pacifico .
literature
- Julio Scherer García , La Reina Del Pacifico: Es La Hora De Contar . Mexico City 2008, ISBN 978-9708100632 .
- Judith Ann Warner: Women and Crime: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) . Publisher: ABC-Clio Inc (July 19, 2012), ISBN 978-1598844238
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Klaus Ehringfeld: cocaine gangs in Latin America: Drug queens seize power. Spiegel Online, August 15, 2012, accessed December 3, 2012 .
- ^ A b Paul Harris: Fascinated US awaits trial of Mexican drug cartel's 'Queen of the Pacific'. Guardian, August 12, 2012, accessed December 3, 2012 .
- ↑ goettinger-tageblatt
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de
- ↑ a b c Jörg Diehl: Snow Queen behind bars. Spiegel Online, October 23, 2007, accessed December 3, 2012 .
- ^ A b James C. McKinley Jr .: In Mexico, a Fugitive's Arrest Captivates the Cameras. New York Times, October 12, 2007, accessed December 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Underworld queenpin. Newsweek October 9, 2007, archived from the original October 1, 2011 ; Retrieved December 3, 2012 .
- ↑ DPA: Almost six years imprisonment for “La Reina del Pacífico”. FAZ.Net, July 26, 2013, accessed on July 31, 2013 .
- ^ The Guardian February 8, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ávila Beltrán, Sandra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican drug baroness |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baja California , Mexico |