Carmen Elena Figueroa

Carmen Elena Figueroa
Beauty pageant titleholder
Born Carmen Elena Figueroa Rodriguez
San Salvador, El Salvador
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Hair color brown
Eye color green
Title(s) Miss El Salvador 1975
Miss Universe 1975 semifinalist (Top 12)

Carmen Elena Figueroa Rodríguez is a Salvadoran beauty pageant winner and politician.

Miss Universe '75

Figueroa was El Salvador's representative to the Miss Universe Pageant in 1975 and placed in the top 12, the first time a Salvadoran was placed in the semifinals since Maribel Arrieta did it in 1955.[1]

Legislative Assembly

She was elected to the El Salvador National Assembly in 2006 where she is currently the Deputy for the party ARENA.[2] Figueroa is married and has two sons. Her father, Carlos Humberto Figueroa, was a colonel in the Salvadoran military. Through him, Figueroa is of French descent.[3]

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