Currently, the pageant is responsible for selecting Puerto Rico's delegates to Miss Universe.
The Miss Puerto Rico beauty pageant has now turned to technology to reach more people through the use of podcasting.
[1] In this, Wilton Vargas, an international multi-media and technology personality, interviews all contestants with the goal of helping people get to know them better so that they can participate in the voting process using cell phones.
Puerto Rico is one of the most successful competitors in the history of the Miss Universe pageant, having won five times.
The four other Puerto Rican delegates who have won the Miss Universe title are Deborah Carthy-Deu (1985), Dayanara Torres (1993), Denise Quiñones (2001), and Zuleyka Rivera (2006).
Koehler was born in the Netherlands to a Dutch father and a Dominican mother, and grew up in Puerto Rico.
In 2011, after Bodine Koehler Peña was crowned Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2012, people started to question her nationality.
"[5] After the strong criticism, the national director of the pageant at that time, Desiree Lowry, explained that the rules of the contest establish that the participants must be citizens of the country and have lived in it for a minimum of six months.
After Hemisphere Media Group acquired the rights of the franchise, Denise Quiñones, was appointed as the organization's director.