Mexico Miss World pageant director shot dead in targeted attack
Source: The Guardian
The director of the Miss World beauty pageant in Mexico has been shot dead in a targeted attack just hours after crowning the provincial winner for the violence-plagued state of Sinaloa.
Hugo Rubén Castellanos Jiménez, 39, was killed in the early hours of Sunday morning, shortly after he and a friend were abducted by several masked gunmen who had installed a road block near the bar where they had been celebrating with organisers from the Sinaloa pageant.
Castellanos, a former model and owner of a well-known modelling agency, was found shot dead a few hours later in the back of the carjacked Cherokee jeep. His friend, identified by local media as a US citizen, was freed unharmed.
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Beauty pageants in Mexico have long been connected to the criminal underworld. Sinaloa – birthplace of some of Mexico’s most infamous drug traffickers including Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – has a particularly inglorious history with beauty contests.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/09/miss-world-beauty-pageant-director-killed-mexico-sinaloa-cartel
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Maybe you'd have to be really stoned to be able to endure watching them from beginning to end.
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Friends might remember how much the host, Hugo Rubén
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