When you think of a Mexican drug smuggler, cartel operative or drug baron, what is your mental image?

I imagine a guy with sunglasses and a big Dodge Ram pickup.

Or you might envision somebody out of a Robert Rodriguez movie, like the ruthless character portrayed by Portuguese actor Joaquim de Almeida in “Desperado.”

Nevertheless, all drug traffickers don’t fit the stereotypes. Some of them, in fact, are women.

She resembles a middle class Mexican mother or businesswoman, one you might see any day of the week.

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