Luz Maria Barrera Agaton: Police probe foul play in drowning of bodybuilder beauty queen in Mexico

Foul play is being investigated in the drowning of a bodybuilder beauty queen while on holiday.

Luz Maria Barrera Agaton had been talking with family and friends at a hotel pool in Mexico when most of them went to bed just after midnight on Sunday.

Luz was eventually left alone in the pool at the Coco Resort & Villas Hotel in Motul, near Cancun.

When she did not make it back to her room, family and friends went searching — finding her lifeless body at the bottom of the pool.

Police are now investigating possible links to the 36-year-old’s death and threatening banners hung outside the gym she owned and ran in Merida just two weeks earlier.

Luz destroyed the signs.

In 2017, while dating ex-state prosecutor Chiri Roberto, she and her partner were threatened by thugs.

And in 2023, her gym was the scene of a tragic death when a barbell fell on top of a young man, allegedly because of a trainer’s carelessness.

Luz, who was the vice president of the Yucatecan Association of Bodybuilding and Fitness, was crowned fitness champion at the 2017 Mister Mexico bodybuilding contest.

She also won the female bikini category at the Mr Olympia Amateur competition in Spain.

Yucatecan president Evangelina Cim Mezquita paid tribute to Luz in a Facebook post.

“Sometimes it’s impossible to understand why certain things happen,” she said.

“We will miss you. Your boundless joy, your simple manner.

“May God comfort your entire family.”