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A YEAR IN THE LIFE Miss Florida Latina - Samaria Martinez

 

       

 

                 

                    Samaria and TV Personality Bonco       Samaria and Cacaho             Samaria and TV Personality Kary
                                                                                             

         

Samaria and Miss South Miami USA    Samaria and Miss TEEN Miami Tropic                    Makeup Lessons                     Samaria being interviewed by City of Miami        Samaria at Los Gauchitos 
 
       


July 2008 ---- Best wishes from our friends at Puppy Fantasy!!
 
 
 
*Congratulations Samaria!!! You are not only pretty in the outside but, you also have a big heart. Keep on your good job! We admire you here too. We know you will do great in "Miss Latina USA" and we are praying for you.

 

 

 

 


Samaria Martinez, mourns the loss of a young boy
May 31, 2008
 
 
MIAMI ― A Venezuelan couple spent their life savings to bring their child to South Florida to live a few comfortable months before dying from cancer. Despite treatment, doctors said the 3 year old had a few months to live. Ricardo Echenique died on Thursday.

On his second birthday, doctors in Venezuela diagnosed Ricardo Echenique with hepatoblastoma--liver cancer. A year after, chemotherapy took all of his hair; his condition got worse, and Venezuelan doctors gave up hope.

"They told everyone to give him the best quality of life and to enjoy as much as he can because there was nothing else [the doctors] could do for him," said Samaria Martinez, Miss Florida Latina 2007.

Samaria visited Ricardo at the Children’s Hospital with a donation for Ricardo's treatment and joined his parents and friends in the hopes that doctors would find a miracle.

"We are very sad for this loss," said Martinez.
 

MISS FLORIDA LATINA SAMARIA MARTINEZ at Emeshel's Grand Opening
Thursday, April 24, 2008
 
Award winning second-generation crystal designer Emeshel is renown for high quality, individuality, creativity and a total commitment to handmade production. Following the successful establishment of Emeshel in Europe, the designer has now opened its first showcase branch in Miami. The grand opening featured Miss Florida Latina, Samaria Martinez, as well as a showcase Emeshel's art masterpieces.

 

    

 


MISS FLORIDA LATINA SAMARIA MARTINEZ will remember Cachao, the great maestro.
March 27, 2008
 
A crowd of about 800 had filled St. Michael's Catholic Church, by 8 p.m. Wednesday, when Cachao's band was scheduled to play two of the artist's danzones -- the stately yet funky compositions that led to his creation, along with his brother Orestes, of the mambo. It was a mostly Cuban crowd, many of them artists and celebrities who remembered Cachao from Cuba.

Among them was our very own Miss Florida Latina, Samaria Martinez. Samaria had meet and exchanged words with Cachao recently at a opening of the Ache Night Club an event sponsored by La Cosa Nostra’s TV Show on America TV.
 
''We meet less than a month ago, and I was very surprised to hear of his passing. He will be remembered by my family and all as a great Cuban icon,'' Samaria recalled.
 

City of Miami TV Channel 9, The Rythm of Miami TV Show
February 14, 2008

 
 
 
Samaria being interviewed 
by the cameras of the City of Miami TV's Channel 9,
The Rythm of Miami TV Show.
 
 
 
 
  


MISS FLORIDA LATINA is a guest at the opening of Ache Night Club
February 9, 2008


Miss Florida Latina 2007, Samaria Martinez, was a special guest at the Ache Night Club opening, an event sponsored by America Teve, Miami’s Chanel 41.
Miss Martinez greeted guests and was photographed with Miami celebrities’ and cast members from the TV show La Cosa Nostra. 


                                   

 


MISS FLORIDA LATINA is a guest at the Miss Sunset Place USA & Teen USA Pageant, Pageantry Seminar

January 27, 2008

Miami, FL,
Miss Florida Latina 2007, Samaria Martinez, was a special guest at the final Pageantry Seminar for the contestants of this year’s Miss Sunset Place USA & Teen USA Pageant.

Samaria greeted contestants and was photographed with Miss Miami Tropic Teen USA 2008 and Miss South Miami USA 2008. Samaria enjoyed reviewing Pageantry
Techniques such as wardrobe selection and make-up application as part of her preparation for the nationals.

Miss. Martinez will also be a special guest at the upcoming Miss Sunset Place USA & Teen USA Pageant to be held at Sunset Place, Miami, Florida.

 

 


Miss Florida Latina en Coronacion de la reina del Carnaval de Colombia en Miami
sabado, 26 de enero, 2008.

 

MISS FLORIDA LATINA is a guest at the coronation of the Queen of the Colombian Carnaval in Miami

 


Miami,FL,
Miss Florida Latina 2007, Samaria Martinez, was a special guest at 2nd annual coronation of the Queen of the Colombian Carnaval in Miami.

 

Miss Martinez greeted guests and was recognized on stage for her achievement as the Florida Latina Queen. She was photographed with the judges, local Miami celebrities and with Daniela Jaramillo Queen of the Colombian Carnaval in Miami. Jaramillo, a 20-year-old business student at Miami's Florida International University, opened the pre-carnival festivities while our very own Samaria Martinez greeted Daniella on stage in order to congratulate her in the name of all Latinos.

 


Miss Florida Latina coopera con una noble causa
miercoles, 12 de diciembre, 2007

 

SAMARIA MARTINEZ y otras embajadoras de belleza internactionales presentes en Séptima Gala ANF


Miami, FL,

Samaria Martinez, Miss Florida Latina 2007, Xiomara Blandino, Miss Nicaragua 2007 y Cristiana Frixione, Miss Nicaragua 2006, dijieron presente durante la séptima gala anual del American Nicaragua Foundation (ANF), el pasado primero de Diciembre en la ciudad de Miami, Florida.

A ellas se les unió Miss México 2007 y Miss República Dominicana 2006, diciendo presente a la noble causa de ANF.

ANF es una organizacion sin fines de lucro, que con la colaboración de cientos de individuos y corporaciones, aspira a trascender los propósitos tradicionales de la caridad, asegurándonos de tal manera de crear condiciones en lo cual cada beneficiario del ANF so podrá apoyar en una red de apoyo cuyo propósito es brindarles autonomía y autodependencia. Con esta meta en mente, ANF ha creado programas que buscan fomentar y promover una mayor oportunidad, autosuficiencia y dignidad para los sectores más pobres de Nicaragua.

 


Miss Florida Latina en Nuestra Belleza
miercoles, 28 de noviembre, 2007


MISS FLORIDA LATINA is a guest at the Nuestra Belleza Pageant

Palm Beach,FL,
Miss Florida Latina 2007, Samaria Martinez, was a special guest at the Miss Nuestra Belleza Hispana 2007 Pageant of Palm Beach Florida, an un-official preliminary to the Miss Florida Latina US Pageant.

Miss Martinez greeted guests and was recognized on stage for her achievement as a Florida Queen. She was photographed with the judges and local Miami celebrities’ at the Palm Beach Pageant.

Miss. Martinez continues her preparation for the nationals in order to become the next Miss USA Latina. Her routine involves fitness workouts, salsa dancing, stage training, reading different materials and keeping in touch with current affairs. She combines her pageant efforts with her studies as a business and research mayor at Miami Dade University.

The Miss US Latina selection will take place early next year. The chosen candidate will represent the USA at the Miss America Latina Pageant. 
 
For pictures of this event and more information please vistit: www.myspace.com/missfloridalatina. 
 
Miss Florida Latina en Miss Cuban-American 
sabado, 17 de noviembre, 2007


MISS FLORIDA LATINA is a guest at the Cuban-American Scholarship Pageant

Miami,FL,
Miss Florida Latina 2007, Samaria Martinez, was a special guest at 22nd annual Miss Cuban-American Pageant in Miami Florida.
She was photographed at the event with the judges and local Miami celebrities’ such as TV’s personality Maria Laria.
Samaria has developed such an acute eye for pageantry, that she was one of the few people who predicted the winner of the Miss Cuban-American Pageant from early on. Miss. Martinez continues her preparation for the nationals in order to become the next Miss USA Latina. The chosen candidate will represent the USA at the Miss America Latina Pageant.