Dominican belle among favorites to win Miss Universe crown
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Santo Domingo.- San Francisco de Dominican Macorix belle Carmen Muñoz, 24,who won the Miss Republic crown to represent the country in the Miss Universe 2017, ranks third among the favorite candidates to win the contest.
Muñoz has 41,593 votes on the listas.20minutos.es website thus far.
First place belongs to Nicaragua candidate Berenice Quezada, and second to Puerto Rico’s representative, Danyeshka Hernández.
Most of the women on the list of the 20 most popular are Latinas.