Contestants from the Americas favorites for Miss Universe crown

Online betting outfits have several Latin American and Caribbean contestants as favorites to win the Miss Universe beauty pageant tonight in Mexico City. One website has Miss Venezuela Ly Jonaitis and Miss Brazil Natalia Guimaraes as the top two to vie for the crown, while another site has participants from the Western Hemisphere in eight of the top ten spots.

Several contestants have broken the mold of the traditional Miss Universe candidate such as Miss Jamaica Zahra Redwood. The most radical deviation has been by Miss Sweden Isabel Lestapier Winqvist who dropped out of the competition and said that the pageant “is degrading to women and weighed down by scandals”.

Seventy-seven contestants (image) will aim to succeed Puerto Rican Zuleyka Rivera as the next Miss Universe.

Sources- Monsters & Critics, theonlinewire.com, wagerpartners.com, The Latin Americanist, The Hindu, Wikipedia

Image- sawf.org