Internet glamour girl is ‘hit-squad head’
A MEXICAN woman who posts photographs of herself on the internet wielding pink and gold AK47s and designer handbags has been accused of being the head of an infamous drug cartel hit squad.
The voluptuous Claudia Ochoa Felix, 27, has become famous in Mexico after using Twitter to show off her love of firearms and luxury clothes.
Mexican newspapers have suggested she runs Los Antrax, an armed enforcement wing of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
But Felix has strongly denied the claim, which was initially reported by the Blog del Narco website.
She wrote on Twitter that suggestions of her involvement in organised crime were “cowardly lies and slander”.
There are no current police investigations into Felix, who is reportedly regularly seen at nightclubs in the Mexican cities of Mazatlan and Guadalajara, accompanied by bodyguards.
Her photographs have attracted a following of nearly 100 000 people on Twitter.
Felix is seen driving in sports cars, relaxing in swimming pools and posing with a lion and a leopard. There is also a photograph of one of Felix’s three children lying on a bed covered in bundles of money.
Felix has been described as the “Mexican Kim Kardashian” by local media because of her resemblance to the US reality television star.
Blog del Narco chronicles Mexico’s brutal drug war, and called Felix the Empress of Antrax.
It was also suggested that she had escaped an assassination attempt last month in which another woman was mistaken for her and killed.
In December, Rodrigo Arechiga Gamboa, the former leader of Los Antrax, who was known as El Chino Antrax, was arrested as he arrived in Holland after Dutch officials received information from the US Drug Enforcement Agency.
In February, Sinaloa cartel head Joaquin “El Chapo“Guzman, Mexico’s richest and most powerful drug lord, was nabbed at a beach home in Mazatlan.