如果36岁的艾琳·萨伊兹在新世纪来临之前成为委内瑞拉历史上第一位女总统,人们不应该感到过分地惊讶。她出身于委内瑞拉的商人之家,在6个孩子中排在最后。3岁时,她的母亲就被癌症夺去了生命。1981年,已是19岁的艾琳正在大学里学工程学,某一天她听到了母亲从她内心深处传来的预言:你会在某一天戴上世界小姐的桂冠。虽然在此之前她对此毫无兴趣,并且没有进行过任何专业 If 36-year-old Erin Saiz was the first female president in Venezuela’s history before the advent of the new century, one should not feel over-surprised. She was born in Venezuela’s Merchant House, the last of six children. At age 3, her mother was killed by cancer. In 1981, Eileen, now 19, was studying engineering at college and one day she heard her mother’s prophecy from her heart: you would one day wear the Miss World crown. Although she had no interest in this before, and did not have any professional