When Lisbeth Fernández stood next to Lina Luaces last year at the Milander amphitheater in Hialeah and said, “Cuba has a lot of talent to offer the world,” it wasn’t hard to predict that the first runner-up of Miss Universe Cuba wouldn’t sit back and rest afterward.
Luaces took the crown, but Fernández had gained “experience, maturity and confidence,” says the young woman from Pinecrest, who now uses the name of the Miami neighborhood where she lives in her new beauty queen title, Miss Pinecrest USA.
Fernández is aiming to win Miss Florida USA, and she is already in Orlando, where the pageant is being held over the weekend at the Linda W. Chapin Theater in the Orange County Convention Center…