Berenice Xuyami Quezada Herrera (born 28 September 1993) is a

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model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Nicaragua 2017 and represented

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at the

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pageant. In the

2021 Nicaraguan general election General elections were held in Nicaragua on 7 November 2021 to elect the President, the National Assembly and members of the Central American Parliament. President Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front sought re-election, ...

, Quezada was the running mate of

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, presidential candidate for the Citizens for Liberty (CxL) party. However on August 3, she was placed under house arrest and barred from running.

Early life and education

Quezada was born in

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, Nicaragua. Quezada holds a degree in Tourism and Hotel Management.

Miss Nicaragua 2017

On March 25, 2017, Quezada was crowned Miss Nicaragua 2017 by her predecessor Marina Jacoby. Quezada represented

but did not place.

Politics

Following mass arrests of opposition candidates for president in the

as well as other civic leaders, and the cancellation of the legal status of other opposition parties, the Citizens for Liberty (CxL) party declared its own vice-president, former

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commander

, to be its nominee for president, and Quezada was named his running mate. Quezada was a visible participant in the 2018–2021 Nicaraguan protests; however she also modeled for ''Nicaragua Diseña'', one of the media outlets directed by Camila Ortega, daughter of incumbent president Daniel Ortega and his wife vice-president Rosario Murillo, whom she and Sobalvarro were running against in the 2021 election. Quezada has also made social media posts about supporting their party, the

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. On the night of August 3, 2021, Quezada was put under house arrest and barred from running.

References

External links

Official Miss Nicaragua website
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