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Friday, October 5, 2007
Mexican beauty is accused drug lord
Video shows her telling police she is just a housewife


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


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MEXICO CITY

Blessed with charm and good looks, Sandra Avila Beltran is enthralling Mexico. Not as a beauty queen, but as an accused drug lord, and the story of her arrest and possible extradition to the United States is being followed more closely than a telenovela.

Police say that the raven-haired 46-year-old spent more than 10 years working her way to the top echelons of Mexico’s male-dominated drug trade, uniting Colombian and Mexican gangs, and seducing several notorious kingpins.

Dubbed the “Queen of the Pacific,â€