Adriana Maria Paniagua Cabrera (born 24 November 1995 in

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) is a

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model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the

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2018 and competed at

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pageant.

Personal life

Paniagua lives in Chinandega, Nicaragua. She works as a model and has a license in Global management and finance.

Pageantry

Between 2011 and 2018 Paniagua won a number beauty pageants including Miss Teen Nicaragua,

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and lastly, Miss Nicaragua 2018. In 2013, she withdrew at the

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contest in Indonesia, due to personal reasons. In 2018 she represented Chinandega at Miss Nicaragua 2018 and won the title. Paniagua also won a number of special awards including Best Hair, Best secret personality, Miss Eyewear, Best Face, Miss Digital Moviestar, Gold Candidate and Best Smile. She represented her country at the

later this year, but did not place in the semifinals.

Politics

Paniagua has been vocal in her support of the

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against President

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; writing "For a free Nicaragua, where there exists justice, liberty, and democracy" ("") in a June 2018

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post. She has also been vocal in her support of

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and

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within the nation.

References

External links

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