"Yes it's me, for all the people asking if I'm the real one, the real one."
Sandra Ávila Beltrán, known as the
Queen of the Pacific
, has returned to public life.
The woman who was the
femme fatale
of Mexican drug trafficking in the 1980s has reappeared, at 61, with a Tik Tok account.
Her user on the video social network became very popular in a few weeks, as well as being present on Instagram and Facebook.
With an image very different from the one she showed when she left prison in February 2015, the Queen of the Pacific shows details of her personal life and tells her followers about her beauty routines.
The first images of Ávila Beltrán on social networks appeared at the end of June.
The followers that she was gaining asked at first if she was really the Queen of the Pacific.
Various accounts bearing her name, many run by fans, posted images of her over the years.
“This is the only real account, personally run by me,” the woman clarified in her first Tik Tok post on June 29.
In her video you can see a still photograph of her on the beach with the song named after her by Lidia Cavazos.
Later on July 4, she made another post where she again insists that account is official, this time in a recorded video.
Ávila Beltrán was arrested on February 28, 2007, along with her partner, Juan Diego Espinosa, alias
El Tigre
, as they left a Vips restaurant in Mexico City.
For years she had been persecuted by the US and Mexican authorities.
She was linked to the most important drug traffickers and was accused of being part of the drug trafficking networks between the two countries, but her power in the world of the biggest drug lords could never really be proven in court.
After spending seven years in prisons in the United States, where she reached a judicial agreement, and in Mexico, she was released after a judge overturned the only sentence against her, one for money laundering.
That day in 2015 saw a dull Queen of the Pacific, with salt-and-pepper hair, leave jail.
Her fame was built in part by a genetic issue: she was the niece of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, considered in the eighties the Chief of Chiefs of the Mexican drug trafficker.
But also because she is the only woman among all the capos, with an exuberant image and extravagant tastes.
Her passion for jewelry was evidenced when her home was searched after her arrest and 179 pieces of jewelry were seized.
Images of a more appeased but just as graceful Queen of the Pacific can now be seen on her Tik Tok account.
Mixed with postings of phrases, narcocorridos and songs that extol the figure of the woman she once was.
In a publication that accompanies the song of the Mexican band Los Tigres del Norte, it is heard: “Dignified the queen of queens, before the law she does not bow down.
She walks with cat feet, the tightrope dominates.
The more beautiful the rose, the more dangerous the thorn."
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