But neither Yajaira or Rosalinda represented Táchira. That year that andean state didn"t have delegate in
In the mid 1990s, Yajaira Vera worked as a news presenter for El Observador, the news program of Radio Caracas Televisión. Now she is an ophthalmologist and she is working at the Avila Clinic in Caracas, Venezuela.
She has 3 sons, Alejandro Javier, Alfredo and Veronica Villanueva.
She represented her country in Mission Universe 1988 placing as one of the 10 semifinalists and won the very first International pageant in 1988. She was supposed to represent Táchira in the 1987 national pageant, she was eventually replaced by another contestant called Rosalinda Serfaty Rosenstock. Upon joining the pageant a year later, this time as the representative of Miranda, she won the title and was sent to Taipei, Taiwan as the representative of Venezuela for the Mission Universe pageant, where she placed among the 10 semi-finalists. Later that year, she represented Venezuela in the first edition of International, held in Bodrum, Turkey, where she won the crown and became the first titleholder ever.
