2023-11-22 05:53:00
Daniel Ortega’s regime censored a mural dedicated to Sheynnis Palacios, the first Nicaraguan to win Miss Universe. (EFE/ Miguel Lemus)
The Nicaraguan regime prevented two local artists, Kevin Laguna Guevara and Oscar Danilo Parrilla Blandón, known artistically as Vink Art and Torch Místico, from creating a mural in honor of Sheynnis Alondra Palacios Cornejo, Miss Universe 2023 and the first Nicaraguan to obtain this qualification.
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The artists, through Tik Tok, reported that the project was suspended by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, who interpreted the mural as a political message.
“The mural is cancelled. “People took it as a political message,” wrote the artist known as Torch Místico, while Vink Art explained that they could not “continue the mural.”
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Torch Místico also published a photograph on his Instagram account with the mural, in which the face of the new Miss Universe can be seen, and said that they were not going to be able to finish it.
“That was it. We had the intention of finishing, we kept our word, but the authorities did not allow us to continue,” said one of the local artists in charge of the painting.
“That was the end of the mural. We had the intention to finish, we kept our word, but the authorities did not allow us to continue,” he stated.
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The mural, located on private property in Estelí, 149 kilometers north of Managua, was covered with white paint.
The Nicaraguan dictatorship, which celebrated the triumph of Sheynnis Alondra Palacios as Miss Universe 2023 on Sunday, and also highlighted that “Nicaragua is celebrating with its queen!”, has not commented on this complaint of prohibiting painting a mural of the queen of beauty.
The young woman, 23 years old, originally from the municipality of Diriamba, province of Carazo (Pacific), and graduated in Social Communication from the closed Jesuit Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), in Managua, where she played volleyball, is the first Nicaraguan and Central American to win Miss Universe, whose 2023 edition was held on Saturday night in El Salvador.
The mural, located on private property in Estelí, 149 kilometers north of Managua, was covered with white paint.
Born on May 30, 2000, Sheynnis Palacios worked, before her coronation, as host and presenter of the program “Understand your mind”, which is broadcast on Channel 11 of Nicaraguan television, which addresses different topics on mental health and which was born from his personal experience in which he learned to cope with anxiety.
She is the daughter of a single mother and together with her mother’s family she sold buñuelos, a dessert made from cassava with curd or cheese and honey, to help pay for her university studies.
Sheynnis Palacios has a degree in Social Communication from the closed Jesuit Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), in Managua. (Europa Press)
When she was asked, along with the other two finalists, that if she could live for a year in another woman’s shoes, who would it be and why?, Palacios mentioned the 18th century English writer and thinker, Mary Wollstonecraft, considered as one of the pioneers of feminism.
Palacios, who considers humility and gratitude for the little things as his main qualities, triumphed among 84 contestants who for a week were in preliminary competitions in swimsuits, evening dresses and traditional dresses.
The representative of Nicaragua highlighted in the jury’s final question the importance of equal pay so that women can “work in any area.”
“There is no limit for women,” he said.
On November 9, while the contestants were preparing for the pageant, the company that owns the Miss Universe brand, owned by media mogul and transgender rights advocate Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip, filed for bankruptcy.
(With information from EFE and AFP)
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