Miss Universe part-owners Anne Jakrajutatip (left) and Raul Rocha (proper) with reigning queen Sheynnis Palacios/ANNE JAKRAJUTATIP FACEBOOK PHOTO
With simply two weeks earlier than she relinquishes her title, reigning Miss Universe Sheynnis Palacios obtained a heartfelt tribute from the pageant’s part-owner Anne Jakrajutatip.
“You’re all the time the inspiration to many younger girls and aspiration to folks throughout all type of era who desires to pursue the final word dream of being profitable, iconic and fantastically assured,” the Thai media mogul stated of the queen in a social media submit on Monday, Nov. 4.
Palacios shouldn’t be solely the primary Miss Universe winner from Nicaragua; she can be the primary titleholder produced within the worldwide competitors that was totally underneath Jakrajutatip’s watch.
When the Thai enterprise magnate acquired the Miss Universe Group (MUO) within the final quarter of 2022, a number of measures associated to the staging of the 71st version have gone underway, and totally different international locations have already concluded their respective searches.
The 72nd version held in El Salvador final yr, the place Palacios gained, was the primary Miss Universe competitors the place Jakrajutatip had been concerned from begin to end.
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“In two weeks, we are going to crown the titleholder of Miss Universe 2024 in Mexico Metropolis. [star emoji] We are going to all the time love you and miss you, my expensive [Palacios][kiss emoji],” Jakrajuatip stated.
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“You’re the full package deal of marvel girl with the common-or-garden background who made it to the highest [three clapping emojis] You’ll all the time be our #missuniverse and the folks’s queen. LOVE [red heart emoji],” she continued.
Palacios has had a bittersweet victory, whose triumph for Nicaragua introduced her each pleasure and grief. Due to the incumbent’s alleged fascist regime, the queen nonetheless has not had a homecoming in her nation.
The Ortega administration had accused Palacios’ nationwide pageant group of sympathizing with the opposition, and considered her victory as a device to additional discredit the federal government.
Palacios earned her mass communication diploma from the Central American College in Managua, a Catholic academic establishment that was on the heart of protests in opposition to the regime in 2018. A number of prelates have been jailed by the federal government amid the demonstrations.
The administration of President Ortega additionally banned the previous Miss Universe nationwide director for Nicaragua, Karen Celebertti, from returning to the nation. She had already given up the franchise, and a brand new licensee despatched this yr’s Nicaraguan delegate.
As for Palacios, it’s nonetheless not clear whether or not she is going to lastly return to Nicaragua on the finish of her reign. MUO will arrange a “Farewell Afternoon Tea” on Nov. 15 to formally bid adieu to the reigning queen. That is the primary such occasion for the group.
Palacios will relinquish her title to her successor on the coronation present on the Enviornment CDMX in Mexico Metropolis on Nov. 16 (Nov. 17 in Manila). Greater than 120 delegates from international locations and territories world wide are competing for the crown, together with Chelsea Manalo from the Philippines, and part-Filipino delegates Victoria Velasquez Vincent from New Zealand, Christina Chalk from Nice Britain, and Shereen Ahmad from Bahrain.