SUMMARY: In this article about the ‘Queen of the Pacific,’ Sandra Beltran, we learn all about how this woman has become a legend of sorts in Mexico. She has been in and out of prison for years now all to due with anything from drug trafficking to money laundering to helping other fugitives flee from authorities. It even mentions an investigation that went on saying Beltran received Botox treatments inside of prison! The controversy is that she was recently released from prison because a judge dropped the current charges against her saying it wasn’t fair for her to serve more time after she had already been tried for the same crimes in Mexico and the US previously.
ANALYSIS: I found it really interesting on how much attention this story got based solely on the fact that the criminal is a woman. I believe that if any man faced the same charges in the same scenario nobody would give it a second glance. But for whatever reason, the fact that it is a woman draws so much attention to it that it becomes international news. It draws in the debate of how men and women are portrayed in society differently. There are certain roles that are thought of to be filled by men and roles thought of to be filled by women. This obviously is a role that typically a man would fulfill and so when it turns out to be a women it turns the heads of everyone.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: If someone is charged of a crime in one country should they have the right to not be tried for that same crime later in another country?
If Sandra Beltran were a man and did the exact same things would she have gotten anywhere near as much media and attention and why would this be?
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