What did the Miss Universe crown leave for Nicaragua?

The crowning of Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios (23) as Miss Universe 2023, the first Central American to win the pageant, left joy, euphoria and tears, but also exile, arrests, accusations of conspiracy and treason, in addition to the power struggle for the Miss Nicaragua franchise.

When after 29 seconds, what stops Nicaraguans were eternal, they announced that the new Miss Universe 2023 is the representative of Nicaragua, a country in crisis and without freedom of expression. mobilization of 201On the 8th, its citizens took to the streets out of joy and celebrated euphorically, on foot or in vehicles, ignoring the police ban.

Streets of Managuaand inland municipalities Nicaraguathey were filled with people shouting, dancing and honking their cars and motorcycles, and they also carried the blue and white flag of Nicaragua, which in the context of the protests that broke out 5 years ago became a symbol of opposition to the government headed by Daniel Ortega.

From public holidays to bans

In the middle of that night party, the authorities Office of the Mayor of Managua They visited the beauty queen’s family with bouquets of flowers to congratulate her.

The day after the competition, Government issued an official statement – not signed by Ortega or his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo – in which they indicated that they join “the righteous joy of Sheynnis, his family and our people, and the celebration of Central America” ​​the Nicaraguan’s triumph as Miss Universe 2023, also noting that “Nicaragua celebrates with its queen!”

However, days later Vice President Murillo He accused those who elevate the most beautiful woman on the planet for political purposes because, in his opinion, “they intend to turn a beautiful and well-deserved moment of pride and celebration into a destructive blow.”

The authorities also banned the two artists from painting a mural in honor of the newly crowned Miss Universe.

The director of Miss Nicaragua was expelled

In addition, the director of Miss Nicaragua, Karen Celeberta, was banned from entering the country when she and her daughter were about to return from Mexico, where she accompanied the brand new Miss Universe on a promotional tour that also took her to Miami (United States). ).

Palacios traveled from Mexico to New York (United States of America) where he will live for a year to fulfill his obligations with the international franchise, and Celebertti intended to return to Nicaragua.

Police, led by the presidential couple’s in-laws, reported Thursday that they handed over the suitcases containing Palacios’ personal belongings, although they did not explain why they kept them and searched his luggage.

Accused of conspiracy and treason

A day later, the police charged Celebertti, her husband Martin Arguelloand their son, Bernardo Martín Argüello Celebertti, for the crimes of conspiracy and treason.

“Detainees and fugitives must comply condemnation as prescribed by Nicaraguan laws,” the police said, confirming the arrest of a relative of the Miss Nicaragua director.

He invited them too “traitors and stateless people” and they are allegedly accused of having committed the criminal offenses of conspiring to disturb the peace and inciting hatred, violence, terrorism, organized crime, provoking, apologizing and inciting criminal offenses through information and communication technologies, as well as spreading false news, as well as treason and money laundering money from 2018

Ortega and Murillo’s daughter-in-law

In the middle of the director’s exile Miss Nicaragua and arrest of her husband and her son, local media recalled that Ortega and Murillo’s daughter-in-law, Xiomara Blandino, criticized Celebertti’s management before the Miss Universe pageant.

“Tell me, please, how many people from the Miss Nicaragua organization went to international training? Silence, right? It’s something that has to change,” Blandino said via Instagram.

Blandino, remarried to Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo and Miss Nicaragua 2007, is the director of Miss Teen Nicaragua, a pageant Palacios also won in 2016.

“Miss Fritters”

The polemics the contest for the new Miss Universe began before the pageant, when the hosts of the television channel run by the children of Ortega and Murillo ridiculed the Nicaraguan representative for selling buñuelos – a dessert made of cassava with curd or cheese and honey – to help pay for their studies.

“Miss Buñuelos,” said one of the presenters, while Sandinista sympathizers called her “Miss Tranquera” on social media for participating in the 2018 anti-Government march.

The young woman, with whom the Nicaraguans saw themselves in the reflection, is graduate engineer of social communications of the Jesuit Central American University (UCA) in Managua, which was closed last August by the authorities accused of being a “terror center”. The beauty still does not have a date to return to Nicaragua.