Sheinbaum congratulates Miss Universe Mexico.
Mexico City, Nov. 21 (EFE)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum congratulated Fátima Bosch, the Miss Universe winner representing the country, on Friday, stating that she “is an example of courage for all Mexicans and for women.”
Bosch, originally from the eastern state of Tabasco, won the title held in Thailand after the controversy in which Nawat Itsaragrisil, director of Miss Universe Thailand, told her to be quiet during one of the sessions prior to the final for not posting content about the event on her social media.
“She is an example that when there is an injustice, and particularly one affecting women, we must raise our voices,” the president said at her daily morning press conference.
Sheinbaum emphasized that “the old saying, ‘you look prettier when you’re quiet,’ is a thing of the past.
Women look more beautiful when we speak up and when we participate.” And she raises her voice, saying, ‘There’s an injustice, I don’t think so,'” he added.
Regarding her victory, he stated that he “liked that she raised her voice,” referring to the confrontation the winner had with Itsaragrisil, in which, after the director’s verbal attack, Bosch left the room accompanied by other contestants in a gesture of protest.
The 25-year-old from Tabasco, Bosch, became the fourth Mexican to win the award, after Lupita Jones in 1991, Ximena Navarrete in 2010, and Andrea Meza in 2020.
Bosch beat Thailand’s Veena Praveenar and Venezuela’s Stephany Abasaly, who finished in third place in a competition that included women from 120 countries and territories, among them nine mothers, a transgender woman, a genocide survivor, and the first representative of Palestine in the pageant’s history.
