Huitzuco 1942

Today I am telling you a story:

Sixty six years ago there was a beauty contest. Emma Uriza Castro (right) v.s. Beatriz Arizmendi Celis, (left) were the Beauty Queen candidates.

One was supported by the Huitzuco Mine (above) manager, and the other was not. Sources tell me that money was given to miners to vote for one of them. She won; the young people behind the losing candidate, that then became Princess, not Queen, were so outraged, that they decided to organize an alternative celebration. The Princess became a Queen, with a silver crown and all. In a really big hall, next door to the Real Queen's house, they had a Royal Celebration.

At the end good won over evil. Of course the Queen was my mother, (Emma Uriza Castro) and we kids broke that beautiful crown, without knowing all the passions that it arose.

You can see more beautiful girls at:

Huitzuco Queens and Princesses