Women Pageant: 11/18/11

Alejandra Quintero Velasco

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Birth name Alejandra Quintero Velasco
Birth date                  September 26, 1976
Birth place                 Nuevo León, Mexico
Occupation    Beauty pageant
Height    1.70 m

Miss World 1995
Alejandra represented her country and placed in the semi-finals in the 1995 Miss World pageant, held in Sun City, South Africa on November 18, 1995.

Nuestra Bellezo Mexico

Ana Girault

Anabel Solís

Cynthia de la Vega

Daniela García

Gabriela Adriana Beltran

Grecia Vargas De Santiago

Julissa Saavedra.

Karin Ontiveros

Karen Higuera

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Birth name Karen Alicia Higuera Contreras
Birth date              April 2, 1991 (age 20)
Birth place             La Paz, Baja California Sur Mexico
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Hair color    black
Eye color Brown
Title(s) Nuestra Belleza Baja California Sur 2010
                                 Nuestra Belleza Int'l México 2011
Major competition(s) Nuestra Belleza Baja California Sur 2010 (Winner)
                                 Nuestra Belleza México 2010 (Top 10)
                                 Miss International 2011 (Unplaced)

Karen Alicia Higuera Contreras is a Mexican beauty pageant titleholder who obtained the 2011 Nuestra Belleza Internacional México title.

From La Paz, Baja California Sur and student of Psychology, Karen Higuera won Nuestra Belleza Baja California Sur 2010 pageant and she won the right to represent her state in 2010 Nuestra Belleza México contest, held September 25, 2010 in Saltillo, Coahuila. The nineteen year old was designated as Nuestra Belleza Internacional México 2011 by Lupita Jones on February 15, 2011. She is the first delegate from her state to obtain a national title from the Nuestra Belleza México organization. Higuera will compete in the 51st Miss International pageant, will be held November 6, 2011 in Chengdu, China.

Karen Higuera

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Birth name Karen Alicia Higuera Contreras
Birth date              April 2, 1991 (age 20)
Birth place             La Paz, Baja California Sur Mexico
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Hair color    black
Eye color Brown
Title(s) Nuestra Belleza Baja California Sur 2010
                                 Nuestra Belleza Int'l México 2011

Karen Alicia Higuera Contreras is a Mexican beauty pageant titleholder who obtained the 2011 Nuestra Belleza Internacional México title.

From La Paz, Baja California Sur and student of Psychology, Karen Higuera won Nuestra Belleza Baja California Sur 2010 pageant and she won the right to represent her state in 2010 Nuestra Belleza México contest, held September 25, 2010 in Saltillo, Coahuila. The nineteen year old was designated as Nuestra Belleza Internacional México 2011 by Lupita Jones on February 15, 2011. She is the first delegate from her state to obtain a national title from the Nuestra Belleza México organization. Higuera will compete in the 51st Miss International pageant, will be held November 6, 2011 in Chengdu, China.

Gabriela Palacio

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Birth name               Gabriela Palacio Díaz de León
Birth date                 March 28, 1989
Birth place               Aguascalientes Mexico
Height                     1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Hair color                Brown
Eye color                 Brown
Title(s)                    Nuestra Belleza Int'l México 2010
                               Nuestra Belleza Mundo México 2010
Major competition(s) Nuestra Belleza México 2010
                                 Miss International 2010
                                 Miss World 2011

Gabriela Palacio was crowned Nuestra Belleza Internacional México by Anagabriela Espinoza, the outgoing national titleholder and reigning Miss International 2009. She is the first delegate from her state to obtain a national title from the Nuestra Belleza México organization. Palacio competed in the 50th Miss International pageant, held on November 7, 2010 in Chengdu, China where she won the Miss Photogenic award.

Laura Zúñiga

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Popular name Laura Zúñiga
Birth name Laura Elena Zúñiga Huizar
Birth date January 3, 1985
Birth place Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Hair color              Brown
Eye color    Brown
Title(s)                    Nuestra Belleza Sinaloa 2008 (Dethroned)
                              Nuestra Belleza Internacional México 2009 (Dethroned)
                              Reina Hispanoamericana 2008 (Dethroned)

Biography
Laura Elena Zúñiga Huizar is a Mexican model and beauty queen, center of a drug trafficking scandal in December of 2008.

After winning the state pageant title of Nuestra Belleza Sinaloa, Laura Zúñiga competed against thirty-two other contestants in the national pageant Nuestra Belleza México 2008, held on September 20, 2008 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, where she placed as the suplente and was automatically selected to represent the country in the Miss International 2009 pageant. On October 30, 2008 she participated in Reina Hispanoamericana (Hispanic-American Queen) representing Mexico in Santa Cruz, Bolivia bringing the title to Mexico for the first time.

Anagabriela Espinoza

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Birth name Anagabriela Espinoza Marroquín
Birth date              April 18, 1988
Birth place                 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Occupation Model
Height                      5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Hair color    Brown
Eye color                 Light brown

She obtained second place and the right to compete in the 58th international Miss World pageant held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Espinoza won the Miss World Beach Beauty fast track event and award, which automatically gave her a semifinal spot in the 2008 Miss World competition, held December 13, 2008.

A year later, Anagabriela Espinoza was chosen to represent Mexico in Miss International 2009. She became the second Mexican delegate to win that title, just two years after Priscila Perales' victory in 2007.