Female Beauty

Vanesa Peretti is the first deaf woman to take part in the pageant since it began to be held over half a century ago. She drew a great deal of attention as she communicated with her companions, the jury and the public in sign language, while an interpreter spoke aloud her answers for the audience.  Having placed third, she will compete in the next Miss International pageant, in Japan. The jury was made up of various Venezuelan and Colombian personalities, in addition to some plastic surgeons.

Here are the result of Venezuela Beauty Pageant 2006:

1. Lidymar Jonaitis, 20-year-old was crowned Miss Venezuela
2. Claudia Suarez, who will represent Venezuela in the Miss World pageant.
3. Vanesa Peretti, 19-year-old beauty queen who became the country’s first deaf contestant honored with a crown in the pageant, Miss International.

The annual Miss Venezuela pageant is the one of the country’s most watched programs and a source of national pride. 
The country’s Miss Universe winners have included Irene Saez, who won in 1981 and later got into politics. She ran for president in 1998 and lost to Hugo Chavez.
Venezuela has won four Miss Universe, five Miss World and four Miss International crowns – in total, more than any other country. Miss Venezuela made the Miss Universe pageant’s 10 finalists for an uninterrupted 20-year span until 2003.

“Vanesa has been a beautiful example of reciprocal support,” said another “ambassador”, actress Anabella Troconis, “by demonstrating the successful integration of a disabled person, promoting SOCIEVEN and, on our part, receiving collaboration in the form of an interpreter and a hearing aid that enables her to hear some sounds.”

The most famous deafblind person in history was Helen Keller (1880-1968). After becoming the first deafblind person to ever enroll in college, she became a writer, and was a tireless defender of the rights of the disabled and of workers, as a socialist. She wrote 11 books and in 1964 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, by President Lyndon Johnson.

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