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No Misses Venezuela, Brazil In Miss Universe Pageant In The Philippines

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Venezuelan, left, and Brazilian woman, right, nabbed at NAIA (Internet capture)

MANILA. Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s War on drugs will not spare anyone, not even beauty pageant contestants.

Today the Philippines announced that the Miss Universe contestants from Venezuela and Brazil will not be allowed to participate in the international beauty pageant to be held here next January.

The announcement came as two female foreigners — one from Venezuela and the other from Brazil (not the pageant contestants) — were nabbed by authorities at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) for trying to bring in illegal drugs.

Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Ronald ‘Bato’ De La Rosa warned other countries that their Miss Universe contest representatives will also be banned if any of their female citizens are caught trying to smuggle drugs into the country.

With the banning of Venezuela and Brazil, the Philippines’ representative, Maxine Medina  will have a much better chance to win the crown (back to back) now worn by Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach.

Venezuela and Brazil are among the consistent winners and finalists in the 65-year-old pageant.

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Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach Challenges Filipina Women Petitioners To A Fist Fight

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imageMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Reigning Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines has challenged an elite group of Filipina women who have signed a letter to the Miss Universe Organization to cancel the pageant in the Philippines to a fist fight.

The letter is petitioning that the upcoming Miss Universe pageant not be held in the Philippines in January as scheduled.

The petitioners cited the current political atmosphere in the Philippines as well as what they perceived to be an anti-women stance of the Duterte administration as among the reasons to cancel the pageant in the Philippines.

But Wurtzbach  is not taking this issue just sitting down.

In a post on her Facebook page, she assured the beauty pageant-loving Filipinos that she will take care of making sure the popular international beauty contest will be held in the Philippines as scheduled.

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She also challenged the petitioners to a fist fight if it comes down to that.

“When I won the Miss Universe crown, I said that I want to be “confidently beautiful with a heart.”  My heart goes out to the Filipino people who take pride in being the host country for this popular international beauty pageant,” Wurtzbach said.

What a fighter our Miss Universe is!

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Filipina Group Wants Miss Universe Pageant In The Philippines Cancelled

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – An elite group of Filipina women has asked the Miss Universe Organization to cancel the January 2017 beauty pageant scheduled to be held in the Philippines.

The letter signed by more than 150 individuals (as of press time) claims that the current political atmosphere in the country is not conducive to holding a prestigious international beauty contest like Miss Universe.

The co-signers of the letter-petition are the very same people who celebrated the crowning less than a year ago of Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, the reigning Miss Universe who is from the Philippines. It is rumored that majority of them were first runners-up or  “thank you girls” in various local beauty pageants.

All of the netizen comments on the Facebook page which posted the letter to the Miss Universe Organization were critical of the group and accused the co-signers of having the so-called crab mentality, referring to people who want to denigrate and pull down their own group or country.

Some netizens questioned the group if they would discourage their own relatives from visiting the Philippines as balikbayans or encourage women-owned businesses in the country to take their companies elsewhere.

Ironically, the petitioners are quiet about another international beauty pageant, Miss Earth, which will be held in the Philippines this month.

That’s right, pick and choose.

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