Magnolia Camacho, a 29-year-old woman, lost her life after undergoing more than thirty surgeries in six months, following the placement of a gastric band. In the state of Sinaloa, beauty standards require many women to use the scalpel to model their bodies in the image of the figure of the "buchona", a slang word that designates the stereotype of women in drug culture.
These women sometimes put their lives at risk by resorting to charlatans operating in clandestine clinics. Report in Culiacan, the capital of Sinalsoa, in western Mexico, on these abuses of low-cost cosmetic surgery.