The head of Miss World in Mexico was gunned down hours after crowing the winner of the Miss Sinaloa contest.
Hugo Ruben Castellanos Jiménez was kidnapped from a bar shortly after the Miss Sinaloa pageant ended Saturday night and was subsequently found dead in his bullet-riddled car Sunday morning. Two other people with Castellanos that night were also taken by unknown assailants, but they survived the ordeal.
Four masked gunmen with rifles approached Castellanos and his friends as they left a bar at 4 a.m. Sunday morning. Castellanos’ body was found at 8 a.m. by authorities.
Sinaloa state has long been associated with cartel violence. It is the home state of imprisoned drug lord and Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Since El Chapo’s incarceration, Sinaloa has become increasingly violent as El Chapo’s former Guadalajara Cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero is suspected of making a power play to take El Chapo’s turf for his own drug trafficking operation.
Caro Quintero has vehemently denied being involved in the drug trade and that he left the life of a cartel boss behind him since being released from prison in August, 2013. Even if Caro Quintero is not behind the murder, the Sinaloa Cartel has plenty of other powerful rivals vying for control of the Mexican drug trade such as the Gulf Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, known as CJNG in Spanish.
Miss World Organization is a beauty pageant organization based in the United Kingdom and is a competitor to the Miss Universe organization formerly owned by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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