by Margine Quintanilla
The 23-year-old Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios was awarded as the most beautiful woman when she was crowned Miss Universe 2023, thus becoming the first Nicaraguan to receive this recognition, and the second Central American to carry the scepter to these lands. She had previously won it Panama.
The event took place at the Adolfo Pineda stadium, located in the smallest country in Central America, El Salvador,” on Saturday, Nov. 18.
When she received her award for the beautiful Nicaraguan graduate in social communication, she thanked God for the opportunity.
During the event she wore a white dress as a gala dress, with a light blue shawl in honor of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, patron saint of all Nicaraguans, as the mother of Jesus Christ is popularly known, whom she placed in her hands. all your effort and participation.
During the event, the excitement of the public was immense every time Miss Palacios appeared on stage, filling the stadium with elegance, sweetness and dominance.
Attendees from many countries around the world shouted with immense joy at not being able to contain so many emotions inspired by Palacios’ perfect performance on the catwalks.
Palacios also showed off her intelligence during the question and answer period, asking her what the greatest quality in people is. She said the greatest quality is humility.
“Humility and seeing the little things with gratitude is where the essence of people lies,” she said. She also spoke about the rights of women around the world which should be defended and protected.
In this event there were no disputes or disagreements, the 84 young contestants behaved happily and fraternally, and upon hearing the name of the winner, they happily surrounded the new queen of universal beauty, chanting: Nicaragua!, Nicaragua!, Nicaragua! Meanwhile, the young Palacios cried with emotion, pointing to the sky with her index finger as a sign of gratitude and with her other hand she greeted the world, as a sign that a new period begins.
This news pleased all Nicaraguans who are living the moment in all corners of the world. Palacios wrote with honor, dedication, effort, faith and humility, her name in the history of Nicaragua by winning such a long-awaited award for her long-suffering country.
Palacios, born in Diriamba, municipality of Carazo, Nicaragua, stood out for her elegance and impeccable command of the catwalk, both in evening dress, swimsuit, cocktail dress and her excellent representation of the Nicaraguan fantasy costume, the “Zanate”, created by designer Jorge Salazar.
The costume was inspired by a bird found only in Nicaragua and the northern tip of Costa Rica. Some of the commentators explained that “the grackle is an intelligent bird that adopts the position with its wings raised to imply that the place where it is its territory.”
During her presentation, Palacios adopted the grackle position, marking the stage with grace, elegance and confidence as part of her territory, thus surpassing the rest of the competitors.
Without a doubt, this catwalk was one of the definitive reasons that secured Palacios a place in the top 20, where the girls from Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Chile, and El Salvador were among the other 84 most beautiful young women in the world who participated in such a distinguished event.
The contest was very close because the young women came very well prepared.
Among the finalists, the representative of Thailand and Australia stood out. The young representative of India, Shweta Sharda, wore the most beautiful jewelry; Miss El Salvador made a splash of technology in her fantasy costume representing the power of volcanoes; Miss Chile showed a tender and beautiful face; Ukraine also sent a beautiful representative.
Miss Canada’s Fantasy costume was beautiful and made by a humble designer from the department of Chontales, Nicaragua. The event itself was characterized by the excess of beauty, luxury, delicacy, perfection and quality.
Miss Universe thanked the Salvadoran people for the incredible welcome they gave to all the candidates and expressed her gratitude for having received many pampering from those people, of whom she declared that she felt “loved.”
First words
The new Miss Universe said in her first words that: “This story is just beginning, I want to make big changes in the lives of women who are the fundamental axis in the construction of society.” She also said that she loved the pupusas of El Salvador, and that she fell in love with the landscapes of that sister republic.
She also expressed her gratitude to God, “I am very happy and grateful to my God, for life and for this opportunity that has changed my life.” She also dedicated her victory to girls around the world, her family and the more than six million Nicaraguans who supported her. I want to tell all Nicaraguans who are watching me right now that we did it,” she noted.
She expressed that this is a story that is just beginning and that not only changed her life, but will also change the lives of many girls because through her voice she intends to open many doors for them and leave a legacy with the story of her life, demonstrating that if things can be changed.
“When they tell you that dreams don’t come true, believe that they can become possible. When they tell you that you can’t, do the opposite, believe in the voice in your heart,” she expressed.
Palacios explained that one of her goals as the new ambassador of beauty in the world is to make her social mental health project a reality, which will be dedicated to all Nicaraguan girls and women.
During her adolescence, she experienced a deep anxiety problem that led her to hurt her arms and that she was only able to overcome with medical help.
She explained that the solution is not “to try to stop being human, but to find the problem within yourself, know it, know that it exists and flourish,” she added.
Palacios was born in a home made up of her single mother and her grandmother, who had to live a difficult life and for this reason she became accustomed to fighting to get ahead in life. Her mother was an entrepreneurial woman who founded, together with her grandmother, a typical Nicaraguan food company, such as sweets, buñuelos and nacatamales, among others, which allowed her to enter university and graduate with a degree in Social Communication.
For their part, the people of Nicaragua reacted to this triumph by taking to the streets, caravans of vehicles traveled through the streets of Managua with their horns turned on as a sign of joy, there were also people who set off rockets, firecrackers and fireworks as a sign of celebration. The people of her town, Diriamba, fired rockets in front of her house.
“Que increíble”, dijo la arquitecta y bailarina de flamenco Tesalia Cáceres Vega desde Diriamba a El Reportero, felicitando al entrevistador quien es de Nicaragua, diciendo que a pesar de ser ella de la misma ciudad de la ganadora, y agregó, “no la conozco, pues ella se mantiene en Managua, (la capital).
