Nicaragua has surprised the world by winning the Miss Universe contest for the first time. The hope and happiness that the crown brought to the people has awakened an ugly and aggressive response from the Sandinista dictatorship. The regime that rules the country with an iron fist is afraid and doesn’t know what to do.

Nicaragua's politicized police force has charged Karen Celebertti, organizer of Miss Nicaragua, of terrorism, treason and organized crime, along with her husband, Martin Arguello, and her son, Bernardo Arguello Celebertti. All have been charged without reasons and without evidence.

the second half of the last century the dictatorships of Russia, China and Cuba prohibited and persecuted beauty pageants. They were considered vices of capitalism and a cancer that had to be eradicated at all costs.

Starting in 1960, the Castro dictatorship in Cuba censored all beauty contests, considering them “subtle weapons of the empire”, “ideological........

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