This Thursday, November 27 in Japan, the final gala of the contest was held Miss Internationalin which the paisa Catalina Duque Abréu participated as a representative of Colombia.
After several weeks of coexistence, different tests and immersion in Japanese culture, The candidates from more than 70 countries had their final gala today. In which first 30 finalists came out, then 10 and then five among which the winner would be.
The Philippines, Indonesia, Bolivia, Zimbabwe and Colombia were the finalists of this contest.
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Catalina Duque Abréu was in the end with the queen of Zimbabwe, one of her friends in the contest, and took the fourth crown for our country. This is a event that highlights the altruism and social work of the queenswhich in addition to beauty tests, carry out oratory tests in which Catalina stood out for her charisma and spontaneity.
Catalina has not been immune to the controversies that beauty contests have been dragging on, just days after all the Miss Universe scandals: “When these reigns begin to mix with different things, the essence and social power of what a queen can achieve is lost,” she told EL COLOMBIANO before traveling to Japan.
Particularly for this reason his first words, after the victory, were of gratitude: “I want to thank my Miss International colleagues, we are a brotherhood, a family. This is the best beauty pageant that makes me believe that these types of pageants still have a purpose. “We are more than beauty, we are union, I am very happy.”
He then thanked Colombia in Spanish: “Thank you Colombia, we did it,” he concluded.
This was the moment of the coronation
The Colombian queen, last year’s winner of the National Beauty Contest, told us in a previous interview with EL COLOMBIANO that her goal was to win: “She traveled on November 10, the 12th I am arriving in Japan, the 27th is the big coronation, that is, when I bring the fourth crown to Colombia and on December 2 I return to the country,” she told us.
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Catalina was documenting her time in Japan, home of Miss International, on social media and telling all the details of her experience with Japanese culture and this contest.
Who is Catalina Duque Abréu, the new Miss International?
Catalina Duque Abréu is 26 years old, He studied social communication at Eafit with an emphasis on digital marketing. He did his professional internship at Cementos Argos and stayed there. He had been working at Argos for two and a half years until the opportunity came. to participate in Miss Colombia. She is 1.80 tall, blonde, with blue eyes and considers herself a very authentic, happy, social woman with a very big character and heart. In the contest he spoke perfect English and prepared himself in oratory to be able to win the crown.
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Her family traveled to Japan to accompany her in this challenge. which, as she said in a live before the coronation, will change her life for the next year as an ambassador of this reign that has a social purpose throughout the world.
