Sheynnis Palacios is located in Brazilas part of her tour around the world. During her official welcome to the South American country, the beautiful Diriambina met with the first Miss Universe from Brazil, Ieda Maria Vargaswho won his crown in 1963, so their victories are 60 years apart.
The meeting between the two Miss Universes generated excitement during the event, to such an extent that Palacios said she felt very grateful for the presence of her colleague from other times. The photograph on social networks of the meeting of beauties caused a stir in Brazil, a country that highly follows the Miss Universes. beauty pageants.
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Vargas was crowned Miss Universe on July 20, 1963 in Miami, Florida, and it became the most watched event on television that year. The Brazilian was the first to bring the universal crown to her country, where she is still a prominent figure in Rio de Janeiro society.
Palacios is visiting Brazil for the second time, the first time was last February to participate in the Rio Carnival, as an ambassador for the Pandora brand.
Earlier this month, another plane loaded with Nicaraguans left Nicaragua. The flight was bound for La Aurora Airport in Guatemala City, and the “passengers” were 135 political prisoners who had been locked up for months in Daniel Ortega’s prisons. Days later, they were declared stateless by a judge of the Sandinista regime.
The released prisoners spent months incommunicado in maximum security prisons, accused and convicted of political crimes. Days after their release, they recounted the abuses and human rights violations they experienced at the hands of their jailers.
Before this latest mass exile, Daniel Ortega’s regime held more than 151 political prisoners in its jails, but it is feared that the list has doubled because the kidnappings do not stop, and fewer and fewer relatives of the prisoners avoid reporting the incidents for fear of further reprisals.
In a press release issued on September 5, the authorities of the U.S. government, the country that has received the latest exiles, stated that “Daniel Ortega, Rosario Murillo and their associates continue to violate human rights, repress legitimate dissent, imprison opponents, confiscate their property and prevent citizens from re-entering their country of origin.”
Related news: The Ortega-Murillo regime has “seriously” limited expressions of religious faith in Nicaragua
According to lawyer Gonzalo Carrión of the Nicaragua Never Again Human Rights Collective, expressions of religious faith in Nicaragua have serious limitations imposed by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, not only against those who profess the Catholic faith but also the evangelical faith.
“The dictatorship has done everything to block these types of demonstrations and has been extremely strict in preventing processions, religious events, and masses from taking place openly. These events are under constant surveillance… to see what is said in homilies and prayers, to extinguish these expressions and acts of faith, but the faith is not extinguished. In any case, its expressions have serious limitations in the de facto prohibition of freely holding processions, pilgrimages, or any act of commemoration,” said the Nicaraguan lawyer, also exiled due to the Ortega persecution.
The Human Rights Collective, in bulletin 4 on “Freedom of religion in Nicaragua”, collected the prohibitions of religious faith that have been documented in Nicaragua since 2022, by order of the Ortega regime.
