html When he was 126 years old, Paulina Ramírez García decided to perform "mini liposuction" in her hometown, Sinaloa, Mexico: it means to pull some fat out of the abdomen and then put it into her chest and buttocks.
After paying $2,000, she underwent surgery. However, the doctor and clinic she chose were not very good - her doctor was general practitioner , not a professional plastic surgery doctor.
In other words, the doctor is not qualified to perform liposuction surgery, and Garcia knows nothing about it.
An accident happened indeed. During liposuction, Garcia's organs were pierced by doctors six times, including her lungs and intestines.
She quickly entered septic shock and stayed in the hospital with dense tubes inserted into it for three weeks. In the end, she still couldn't survive and passed away in March this year.
This seems to be an ordinary medical accident, but in fact, Garcia is a microcosm of many young girls in Mexico -
In order to become "Buchona", they took the risk and entered various black clinics.
So-called "Buchona" " is a Mexican slang. Decades ago, it had only one meaning, which was a woman who had a romantic relationship with a drug dealer.
Whether it is a wife or a lover, it can be classified as this category;
But now, if you search for the word "Instagram, the result will be like this:
like this:
and this:
Ladies have exaggerated measurements, and it is almost impossible to grow normally. waist-hip ratio , plump lips, etc.
In traditional aesthetics, it seems a bit too much to do, but for Buchona, this is just right. The reason behind
is very sad:
There are not many women in the local area who can afford this kind of plastic surgery. What is the fastest shortcut to become beautiful?
Marry a drug dealer.
So this exaggerated measurement has another layer of function beyond aesthetics: to show social status.
It tells people that my family is a drug dealer and I enjoy rich life that others can't afford, so it must be exaggerated.
In Sinaloa Sinaloa Sinaloa Sinaloa Sinaloa Sinaloa Sinaloa Sinaloa "For many women, their focus in their lives is to marry drug dealers because it means clothes, houses, cars. Their ideal body shape is like Emma Coronel ."
Emma 1Emma Coronel ." Coronel is probably the most famous of all Buchonas. She is the wife of the big drug lord Joaquín Guzmán. Guzmán was once rated as one of the most powerful people in 2009 to 2013 by Forbes . It is not an exaggeration to describe it as wealthy.
, Emma Coronel herself has no prominent background. The first time she met Guzman was because of her father, who worked under Guzman. She organized a party one time and she went there, so she met Guzman.
The only problem is that Guzman is over thirty years older than her, and Guzmann is nicknamed " Dwarf ", and is 1.68 meters tall,
On the other hand, Emma Coronel was a local beauty pageant queen when she was young.
In short, Guzman was very powerful in Mexico, so she became the biggest Buchona. Her dressing and even plastic surgery style was imitated by the people.
She did not make a lot of waves during the beauty pageant queen, and she finally became famous because of the label "Guzman's Buchona", which has to be said to be a bit ironic.
Although Guzman has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States, Emma Coronel's every move still affects the aesthetics of many Latin American women.
In 2018, Guzman was tried in the United States. She appeared in support. During this period, she did not look panicked at all. Instead, she dressed up very carefully and attracted a wave of favor on social media.
In addition to the influence of celebrities like her, popular culture is also one of the behind-the-scenes drivers of Buchona culture.
011 "La Reina del Sur" was launched, attracting countless viewers.
The heroine of this drama can be said to be one of the earliest Buchonas on TV. She is strong and enterprising. She is wearing gorgeous clothes and looking for love while also building a drug trafficking empire.
Seeing that the ratings are good, there will naturally be media strolling while the iron is hot. For example, in 2018's "Las Buchonas", they directly wrote Buchona into the title......
In addition to dramas that directly express Buchona's image, there are countless dramas about drugs. The most famous " Breaking Bad " and Netflix's "Narcos" are all well-known works. In addition to film and television works, Mexico also has some "drug trafficking folk song ", which render drug dealers a kind of chivalrous spirit and sacrifice spirit and have to take risks.
These inflammatory lyrics based on real people and stories have deceived many young people into drug trafficking.
And these songs are probably not popular in a small field, they are really popular. In the recent Independence Day celebrations, the Sinaloa government even specially invited a band to perform drug trafficking folk songs......
Under the influence of these many factors, becoming Buchona has become a common pursuit. Some internet celebrities have achieved more than 200,000 fans with the "Buchona style".
Some people share plastic surgery knowledge online....
This leads to a problem. Even if young girls cannot really marry drug lords, they want to become Buchona in appearance. Garcia at the beginning is one of these thousands of girls.
There is a market where there is demand. A specialist at the local public health risk prevention agency said that in the past two years, dozens of underground plastic surgery clinics have sprung up in Sinaloa.
Currently, there are 233 clinics in the province registered with this institution. In September, another 24 were closed because they failed to meet the basic requirements.
But these more than 200 companies are probably just the tip of the iceberg. Most underground clinics will not register at this institution. They are completely out of supervision and are difficult to find.
Some media photographed the clinic where Garcia had an accident. There was an iron fence door on the outside and a fully reflective door inside. There was no way to see what the situation inside was.
looks the same as an ordinary house.
unless the government spends a lot of energy to check one by one, it is difficult to find abnormalities.
Even so, people are still flocking to plastic surgery.
Kendra is 29 years old and grew up in Sinaloa. She first received "mini liposuction" was three years ago, and was also in a dark clinic.
not only liposuction, she also had a nose and Botox on her mouth.
She knew it was a black clinic, but she still took the risk.
She was lucky, and no complications were left after the operation. What about unfortunate?
She said, "When I was little, I never thought of having a thin waist, a big butt... This is not the concept I learned since childhood.
But when I got older, I saw my friends start to look for those doctors. The thinnest waist and the largest breasts look the most beautiful. Then I told myself that when I get older, I want to become that way. It's like my dream."
As for why Kendra's idea changed, she said that those TV series about Colombia and Mexican drug lords, as well as folk songs that celebrate drug dealers, had a huge impact.
Not only young people, 38-year-old Janet is also obsessed with the "Buchona style". She has undergone at least 24 plastic surgery. Her role model is Emma, the beauty pageant queen mentioned earlier. Coronel said she was "a simple artist".
She herself runs a company that specializes in helping women from other countries to do plastic surgery locally, and said, "The best plastic surgeons in the world are here."....
This sentence is a bit true, maybe only she herself knows it.
In fact, Janet and Kendra are both lucky. As for the unfortunate, just like Garcia, they die inexplicably.
There is a local economic mutual aid association called Cundinas, which is specifically designed to help low-income women with plastic surgery. Members in the group pay a certain amount of money every month. As the funds accumulate, everyone can finally get the opportunity to operate, of course, in a black clinic.
However, no one knows how many of them have happened.
According to a licensed plastic surgeon who has worked in the local area for nearly 20 years, it is not clear how many of them have happened.
According to a licensed plastic surgeon who has worked in the local area for nearly 20 years, it is not clear how many of them have happened.
According to a licensed plastic surgeon who has worked in the local area for nearly 20 years, it is not clear. The student said that she often receives patients who need to deal with wound infections or complications, which is caused by surgery in a black clinic...
The government has not recorded the death toll caused by complications of such surgery, and the official reports are quite rare.
No one knows how many women die like this. Garcia's death is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
and due to survivor deviation , People who have something wrong may not see it, so Janet's company can be opened.
Given that the "drug lord culture" and "Buchona culture" have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the demand for plastic surgery may not disappear easily in the foreseeable future.
There is nothing wrong with pursuing beauty, but whether the values behind this aesthetics are appropriate and how to make the means of pursuing beauty safer and cheaper is still a difficult problem facing the Mexican government.
