When we think of trophy wives we immediately see an image of a rich old white man with a beautiful young woman on his arm. Not so in Latin America. Trophy wives take on a completely different meaning. In Mexico and Colombia, beauty queens are now the trophy wife of choice for the dons of the competing drug cartels. In some of the most violent regions of the Americas, beauty queens have become the ultimate prize for drug traffickers. The practice started in Colombia in the 1970s. Martha Lucia Echeverry, Miss Colombia 1974, was the mistress of Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, the head of the violent Cali cartel. Echeverry is considered the first known ‘narco woman.’ This tradition has continued in...
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