Miss Nicaragua Director Charged With ‘Treason to the Motherland’ for Allegedly Rigging Beauty Pageant to Overthrow Government
Miss Nicaragua’s pageant director has been accused of rigging contests to favor anti-government beauty queens as part of a plot to overthrow the government.
Nicaraguan police announced the charges against pageant director Karen Celebertti on Friday.
“The charges against pageant director Karen Celebertti would not be out of place in a vintage James Bond movie with a repressive, closed off government, coup-plotting claims, foreign agents and beauty queens,” the New York Post noted in their report.
On November 18, Nicaragua’s Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called the win a moment of “legitimate joy and pride.”
However, the mood shifted dramatically when it was revealed that the beauty queen was involved in mass anti-government protests in 2018,
