Narco Chic: The Beautiful Girls of Mexico's Drug Wars

Reuters chronicles the story of Mexico's Narco Chics. With the drug trade flourishing in Mexico, creating a situation of untold violence, corruption and despair that seems to get worse and worse. Mexican teenage beauties renowned for their mix of Mexican, French, German and Greek heritage dream of becoming a Narco wife, but the tragedy of the drug world draws dark clouds over the romanticized life of a Narco beauty.

Via Reuters:

The wealth that drug lords splash about, especially to help rural communities, and the power they exert earn them respect from old Sinaloans and from youths who think narco chic, like ostrich-leather boots, rhinestones and gold pendants of a local folk hero bandit, is the ultimate cool.
For Miss Sinaloa, or Laura Zuniga, a leggy 23-year-old with piercing dark eyes, eye-popping curves and long black hair, a pair of glittering Chanel earrings were visible as she posed forlornly in a gray cardigan for her police mugshot.
With her husky voice and fair skin, another Sinaloa beauty, Zulema Yulia Hernandez, won the attentions of top drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman when they were in jail in the 1990s.
Once out, she lived a glamorous life working for his Sinaloa cartel, but it ended horribly in December when she was suffocated, shot and dumped in a car near Mexico City. The "Z"s sliced into her and smeared with black ink suggest her murder was an attack by the rival Gulf cartel's "Zetas" hitmen.