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  • You know things are really bad in Venezuela when...

    05/19/2003 8:35:27 AM PDT · by ameribbean expat · 5 replies · 504+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | 19 May 03 | associated press wire story
    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - For the first time in decades, the country that has won more major beauty pageants in recent years than any other won't be offering a candidate for Miss Universe. The Miss Venezuela Organization said Friday that the country's strict foreign exchange controls, imposed amid a general strike earlier this year, have made it unable to obtain the dollars to send a candidate to the June 3 pageant in Panama. "The decision not to send Miss Venezuela to this prestigious international contest came after we exhausted all our efforts to send our usual and always distinguished representative,"...