Tony "C" is right again!
The so called "Beauty Pagent" scam is big business in the DR!"Miss Ambar",Miss Constanza","Miss Cafe con Leche"! Every week another beauty/modeling school has a "Pagent"! The girl who has paid several thousand pesos for a "Modeling Course",is now going to get her big chance.The beauty contest! She now has to find a "Sponsor" to pay for her dress,shoes,hair,"make-up",and she has a book of ,usually 10, tickets to "sell" for about 200 pesos each!The contest is at a good hotel like the "Lina",or even the "Jaragua"! The hotel makes money for renting the room,and drinks are forced on the poor girls family who are there to see their daughters big night!The Beauty school keeps all the ticket sales $$$,only expense is to rent the room.These girls have only one problem,they are poor! They are drop dead beautiful,but they live in "Christo Rey" and they don't have two pesos to rub together!The girls "Padrino" (sponsor)is usually an "Italian",:American","Swiss", "German"or rich Older Dominican man,who is proud to be able to help his young protege!Later that night he escorts his young friend into the casino,and the heads do "turn".Even "later" that night,he gets to escort her to his hotel room and it is his "turn"!Say what you want,but those are the facts! What a Country! "Eh" "Antonio"?CRISCO..."Jesus,Mary,and Joeseph",Ken and I agree on something!!!