Photos: Mexico’s beauty queens of Sinaloa
February 23, 2013
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, beauty contestant Donaji Lopez holds still as her make-up is applied backstage before competing in the "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" beauty pageant in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico. Lopez was named runner-up and Queen of the Floral Games. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, Donaji Lopez, 17, left in blue, Mayra Baez, 18, center, and Alejandra Angulo, 19, right, use the mirror backstage as they compete in the beauty pageant "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico. The farming town of 60,000 in the state of Sinaloa, despite its unpaved roads, is full of big mansions hidden behind high walls and iron doors decorated with ornate mirrors and life-size statues of angels. The town has produced at least a Miss Mexico and more recently prides itself in saying the runner up to Miss World 2009 is a native. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, beauty contestant Mayra Baez, 18, watches from backstage during the "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" beauty pageant in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico. The farming town of 60,000 in the state of Sinaloa, despite its unpaved roads, is full of big mansions hidden behind high walls and iron doors decorated with ornate mirrors and life-size statues of angels. The town has produced at least a Miss Mexico and more recently prides itself in saying the runner up to Miss World 2009 is a native. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, dancers watch from backstage as young women compete in the "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" beauty contest in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico. Residents packed the local theater filled with banners and posters advertising the queens and filled the aisles and stairways with extra chairs after the seats filled. The town has produced at least a Miss Mexico and more recently prides itself in saying the runner up to Miss World 2009 is a native. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, contestants parade as they compete in the "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" beauty pageant in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state. The farming town of 60,000 in the state of Sinaloa, despite its unpaved roads, is full of big mansions hidden behind high walls and iron doors decorated with ornate mirrors and life-size statues of angels. The town has produced at least a Miss Mexico and more recently prides itself in saying the runner up to Miss World 2009 is a native. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, Magdabelyn Parra Gamez, who goes by Belyn, is embraced by a friend after winning the beauty pageant "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico. Belyn, 18, took up the mantle on the pageant circuit after the death of her cousin beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamez, who in November 2012 died like a mobster's moll, carrying an AK-47 assault rifle into a spray of gunfire from Mexican soldiers. "This is in memory of Susy," Belyn whispered, shortly before winning the crown, "In honor of her." (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
This Jan. 26, 2013 photo shows a detail of a beauty contestant's nails during the "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" beauty contest in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico. The farming town of 60,000 in the state of Sinaloa, despite its unpaved roads, is full of big mansions hidden behind high walls and iron doors decorated with ornate mirrors and life-size statues of angels. The town has produced at least a Miss Mexico and more recently prides itself in saying the runner up to Miss World 2009 is a native.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, Magdabelyn Parra Gamez, who goes by Belyn, holds still for her make-up backstage before competing in the "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" beauty pageant in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico. Belyn, 18, took up the mantle on the pageant circuit after the death of her cousin beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamez, who in November 2012 died like a mobster's moll, carrying an AK-47 assault rifle into a spray of gunfire from Mexican soldiers. "This is in memory of Susy," Belyn whispered, shortly before winning the crown, "In honor of her." (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, Magdabelyn Parra Gamez, who goes by Belyn, holds still as her lipstick is applied backstage as she competes in the "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" beauty pageant in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico. Belyn, 18, took up the mantle on the pageant circuit after the death of her cousin beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamez, who in November 2012 died like a mobster's moll, carrying an AK-47 assault rifle into a spray of gunfire from Mexican soldiers. "This is in memory of Susy," Belyn whispered, shortly before winning the crown, "In honor of her." (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, beauty contestant Ilce Sahagun, center right, embraces an unidentified person backstage alongside other contestants at the "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" beauty pageant in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Mexico. The town has produced at least a Miss Mexico and more recently prides itself in saying the runner up to Miss World 2009 is a native.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, beauty contestant Donaji Lopez peers from backstage as she watches other contestants perform during the "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" beauty pageant in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico. Lopez was named runner-up and Queen of the Floral Games. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, Magdabelyn Parra Gamez, who goes by Belyn, second from right, poses for photos with fellow beauty contestants backstage at the beauty pageant "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico. Parra, 18, looked up to her cousin Maria Susana Flores, who was gunned down by soldiers in a November pre-dawn shootout with presumed criminals. Belyn's close cousin was crowned Sinaloa Woman 2012, homecoming queen, spring queen, model of the year and many other titles. Authorities and a relative have said Maria Susana Flores was dating a dangerous drug cartel lieutenant and hit man for the Sinaloa Cartel. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, supporters of beauty contestant Donaji Lopez cheer for her at the "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" beauty pageant in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state, Mexico. Residents packed the local theater filled with banners and posters advertising the queens and filled the aisles and stairways with extra chairs after the seats filled. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
This Jan. 28, 2013 photo shows the mausoleum where beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamez is buried, in a cemetery in Guamuchil, Mexico. Susy was only 4 when her mother signed her up for a pageant she had organized herself. The child won, and was crowned "Queen of the Red Cross." It was an exciting moment in a young life soon marred by violence. Two years later, Susy's father was killed after his car was sprayed with bullets - not an uncommon occurrence in Sinaloa. He was 35. Susy was buried with her father in a mausoleum that her mother expanded for her, adding glass lamps and marbled walls. (AP Photo/Adriana Gomez)
In this Jan. 28, 2013 photo, photographs, balloons, statues and candles decorate the inside of the mausoleum where Maria Susana Flores Gamez is buried in Guamuchil, Mexico. Susy, as everyone called her, was looking at a promising future of beauty pageants and a chance to compete for the coveted Miss Sinaloa state title, the first step on the road to Miss Mexico but instead she died like a mobster's moll, carrying an AK-47 assault rifle into a spray of gunfire from Mexican soldiers in November. (AP Photo/Adriana Gomez)
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo, Donaji Lopez, 17, left, and Magdabelyn Porra Gamez, 18, hold hands awaiting the decision of the winner the "Guamuchil Carnival Queen 2013" beauty contest in Guamuchil, Sinaloa state. Porra's cousin Susana Flores Gamez who was voted the 2012 Woman of Sinaloa in a beauty pageant in February, was killed in northern Mexico on Nov. 24, 2012 during a gun battle between soldiers and the gang of drug traffickers she was traveling with. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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