DRUG DOLLS: THE GIRLS WHO WANT TO LIVE WITH GANGSTERS | M6 | 66 minutes

Voluptuous figures, lifted faces with outrageous makeup, colored tiger claws and long, wavy hair… The drug lords’ demands are notorious throughout Colombia. From their earliest years, girls dream of escaping poverty by becoming the girlfriend of a drug baron, but to achieve that they have to go under the knife! Beauty contests of every type, modeling agencies… anything goes to attract a gangster who will shower them with gifts.Breast enlargements and then buttock implants as early as 15 are now commonplace operations in Colombia. More than 400,000 plastic surgery procedures in the country per year! However, this rush to the scalpel is not without serious abuses… Underground clinics, bodies mutilated on the operating table… stories of scandals like this appear regularly in the newspapers!The best way for a young girl to get noticed by a drug lord is through a beauty contest, the key to success for them. Who are these girls? Where are they from? Why does the world of the drug lords fascinate them?Aura Rocio Retrepo escaped after 8 years with the boss of the Cali cartel… and three years behind bars. Since then, she’s made it her everyday struggle to rescue these young girls from the clutches of the drug barons.A close look at the merciless world of the drug dolls””