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The Miss Venezuela contest is the national beauty pageant of Venezuela and has been held since 1952. It is responsible for selecting the country's representatives to the Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International pageants (amongst others).
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NEW YORK, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori is the newest "Madrina" of the Latino Commission on AIDS," announced Dennis deLeon, President of the Latino Commission on AIDS. Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori visited the offices of the Commission in New York on December 1st, World AIDS day and received a commemorative sun pendant, which officially recognizes her as a supporter of the organization and a partner in the fight against AIDS.
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The Miss Universe Organization has transformed this “beauty pageant” into a female empowering enterprise by employing and enabling young women at the crowning moment of each annual pageant. Take a minute to look beyond the beauty, and discover the brains of the operation, the Miss Universe Organization. I’ve been blessed to have been able to work with such a powerful organization that holds such high morals and values and endorses them to each contestant participant. Innovatively, this organization has designed a contest that discovers and empowers the single most determined and distinctive young woman to represent them as they seek to change the world.
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Between 1983 and 2003, Miss Venezuela placed into the semifinals each consecutive year, and placed in the top six every year from 1991 to 2003. This streak was ended in 2004 when Ana Karina Áñez was not chosen as a semi-finalist at Miss Universe 2004. Venezuela has ... twice held the Miss Universe and Miss World titles simultaneously: in 1981-1982 with Irene Saez (Miss Universe) and Pilin Leon (Miss World), and again in 1995-1996 with Alicia Machado (Miss Universe) and Jacqueline Aguilera (Miss World). It is said that Osmel Sousa will retire from his two decades of directing the pageant after seeing a Venezuelan crown another Venezuelan as Miss Universe, in a pageant where no country has ever won on consecutive years.
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"The Miss World contest is in its 55th year and continues to be one of the most prestigious and watched television programs around the world," says Alex Czajkowski, Marketing Director, Sportsbook.com. "Everybody loves to bet and these pageants are a real attraction. They are exciting and unpredictable; people really get drawn in by their national ties."
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