Tonight at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana is the Preliminary Competition for the 71st Miss Universe.
There, the 86 candidates for the crown parade in bathing suits and gala dresses are judged by an all-women jury.
The score each participant achieves tonight will be added to the score from yesterday’s jury interview. Once the sum of these three categories has been added, the ten semi-finalists of this edition will be selected, which will be kept secret until the last night, which will be next Saturday January 14th.
Puerto Rico is represented by Ashley Ann Cariñoa 28-year-old aerospace engineer who was born in Fajardo and moved to Orlando, Florida with her family when she was a child.
In 2021 she competed in Miss Florida, a competition which she won, and in the same year she competed in Miss United States and was the first runner-up.
Various pages of beauty pageant fans have made the Puerto Rican one of the favorites. For many of these forums, the representative of Venezuela is a strong candidate to win the crown, as are Colombia, Peru, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Thailand, Curaçao and a few others who appear on the famous lists of the so-called missiologists.
6 photos The Puerto Rican queen asserts herself and looks majestic in front of a female jury.