CORRECTS YEAR OF KILLING - FILE - This May 23, 2005 file photo released by Miss Universe shows Monica Spear, Miss Venezuela 2005, posing for a portrait ahead of the Miss Universe competition in ...

This May 23, 2005, file photo released by Miss Universe shows Monica Spear, Miss Venezuela 2005, posing for a portrait ahead of the Miss Universe competition in Bangkok, Thailand. Venezuelan ...

For the first time in four decades, Miss Venezuela won't compete in the Miss Universe pageant because of strict foreign exchange controls imposed amid a general strike earlier this year. The Miss ...

Monica Spear, Miss Venezuela 2005, competes at the Miss Universe competition in Bangkok, Thailand in this May 31, 2005 photo. Click on the link, below, for a report from the New York Daily News that ...

For the first time in decades, the country that has won more major beauty pageants in recent years than any other won't be offering a candidate for Miss Universe. The Miss Venezuela Organization said ...