墨西哥選美皇后涉毒被捕 丟失桂冠
Beauty queen stripped of title
Laura Zuniga, the Mexican beauty queen jailed after she was picked up with an alleged drug cartel leader and heavily armed men, has been stripped of one of her titles, Bolivian organizers said over the weekend.
Zuniga lost her title as Queen of Hispanic America, said Promociones Gloria, the Bolivian group that organizes the event said.
Vivian Noronha Cia of Brazil now takes the tiara "as consequence of the events known to the public in which Miss Laura Zuniga... was involved," Promociones Gloria said in a brief statement on Saturday.
Zuniga "failed to follow the rules of the contest, which state that the winner must display correct behavior, stay away from scandals and bad habits, and be a good example to society," Tatiana Limpias de Tarabillo, who heads Promociones Gloria, told the Bolivian daily El Deber.
Zuniga, 23, was picked up late on Monday at a military checkpoint in the western Mexican state of Jalisco while traveling with seven armed men in two vehicles carrying $100,000 in cash. Authorities said they found two AR-15 rifles, three pistols, 633 cartridges and 16 mobile phones in the vehicles.
A judge on Friday ordered "the cautionary measure" of 40 days detention for Zuniga and the men "for probably committing crimes" relating to drug trafficking and transporting weapons, the office of Mexico's attorney general said.
Zuniga was picked up along with Angel Orlando Garcia Urquizar, "presumed to be one of the leaders of the Juarez Cartel," the statement read. Police earlier identified Zuniga as Garcia Urquizar's girlfriend. Zuniga is originally from Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, birthplace of one of Mexico's most powerful cartels.
There has been no word on whether Zuniga will keep her title as "Miss Sinaloa," which she won in July.
玻利維亞選美競賽主辦方於上週末表示，由於墨西哥選美皇后勞拉•祖尼加與一名販毒組織頭目嫌疑人及幾名武裝分子一同被捕，她將被剝奪“西語系美洲選美皇后”的桂冠。
選美大賽舉辦方、玻利維亞的Promociones Gloria組織表示，祖尼加將因此失去“西語系美洲選美皇后”稱號。
該組織在於上週六發布的一份簡短聲明中表示，由於祖尼加涉嫌捲入這起衆人皆知的醜事，巴西選手維維安•諾農哈•西婭將順位獲得選美桂冠。
該組織負責人塔蒂阿娜（Tatiana Limpias de Tarabillo）在接受玻利維亞日報《義務報》採訪時說：“祖尼加沒有遵守競賽規則，包括勝出者必須行爲得當，遠離醜聞及不良習慣，爲社會做出良好表率。”
現年23歲的祖尼加於上週一晚在墨西哥西部哈利斯科州的一處軍事檢查站與另外七名武裝分子一同被捕。他們搭乘的兩輛車內裝有10萬美元現金。警方在車內還發現了兩支AR-15 步槍、三把手槍、633個彈藥筒和和16部手機。
墨西哥司法部長辦公室稱，由於涉嫌販毒及私運武器等犯罪行爲，法院已於上週五裁決了“警戒措施”，祖尼加及其他被捕者被拘禁40天。
公告稱，祖尼加被捕時與疑似華雷斯城販毒集團頭目之一安赫爾•奧蘭多•加西亞•烏爾奇薩爾在一起。警方此前認定祖尼加是加西亞的女友。祖尼加的原籍是錫那羅亞州的庫利亞坎，該地區是墨西哥最大的販毒組織的發源地之一。
目前還沒有消息證實祖尼加是否會同時失去她七月份獲得的“錫那羅亞小姐”桂冠。
