#Mexico - Former 'Queen of Cocaine', Sandra Ávila Beltran, speaks out from her home in Guadalajara

Published on 16 May 2016

Sandra Ávila Beltran has lived, worked and loved inside the upper echelons of the Mexican drug world since the late 1970s. 

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Released last year after serving a seven year prison sentence – including two years in solitary confinement – Ávila, 56, gave her first interview in nearly a decade. She spoke to the Guardian’s Jonathan Franklin in an exclusive three-hour meeting from her home in Guadalajara.