Just days before the 73rd edition of Miss Universe is set to take place in Mexico City, the organization behind the world’s most famous beauty pageant has announced that Italy Mora, the representative of Panama, has been expelled from the competition.

The Miss Universe Organization announced that Panama's representative, Italy Mora, will not participate in the pageant scheduled for November 16 in Mexico City. This surprising news for many Panamanians was confirmed in an official statement explaining that the decision to cancel the 19-year-old was made following an "exhaustive evaluation by our disciplinary committee.