DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

29-year old Yamilex Hernandez of La Vega, Dominican Republic was named the winner of the Telemundo Miss Universe Latin America televised reality show, aired from Bogotá, Colombia. She had made the Top 5 of the Miss Universe Latin America, competing against Génesis Dávila (Puerto Rico), Gemmy Quelliz (RD), Laura Pérez (México) y Andrea Bazarte (México). Genesis Davila of Puerto Rico was the first runner up, and Gemmy Quelliz of DR the third runner up.

The event serves as a preparatory round for the Miss Universe 2025 that will be held in November in Thailand. But new rules of the Miss Universe pageant allow for the winner of the reality pageant to represent Latin America in the Miss Universe contest, No. 74. This means that the DR could have two candidates in the November Miss Universe contest.

The event was marred on the day before when the eight finalists were about to...