Before the winner of the edition was announced 72 of the Miss Universe pageant, a title won by Sheynnis Palacios, Miss Nicaragua, this year; The competition organization announced that Mexico will be the new headquarters of the competition in 2024.
So the following year it will host the 84 participants of the competition, which this year took place in El Salvador and whose Ecuadorian representative was Delary Stoffers, who, after an excellent participation, was not considered for the final stage of the competition she had chosen Miss Universe 2023 and her historic group of semi-finalists: first trans woman, first full-size woman, first mother and first contestant from Pakistan.
Mexico has won the Miss Universe title and crown three times. The first time was won by Lupita Jones (1991), Ximena Navarrete (2010) and Andrea Meza (2021).
The representatives of Latin America took 8 places among the 20 semi-finalists in this edition of the competition, and it was precisely the current Miss Universe who, before knowing her victory, was included in this group of favorites.
Portugal’s candidate Marina Machete, a transgender woman, also advanced, leaving out Rikkie Kolle from the Netherlands and also transgender.
Recent reforms to the competition allow for the first time the participation of transgender women and also the inclusion of mothers, as in the case of Camila Avella and the representative of Guatemala, Michelle Cohn.
The moments most celebrated by the visitors of the “José Adolfo Pineda” National High School were the classification of the representative of the host country and the delegate of Nepal, Jane Garrett, who has earned the affection of Salvadorans with her “body positive”. (AND)