Posted on 02/01/2006 11:07:55 AM PST by Onelifetogive
Top Czech model Helena Houdova was arrested in Cuba last week while taking photographs of Havana's slums – but she managed to smuggle out pictures she hid in her bra.
Houdova – Miss Czech Republic 1999 – was arrested along with fellow model Mariana Kroftova, and Cuban police confiscated a roll of film in the women’s camera. However, Houdova concealed the memory card of her digital camera insider her brassiere.
"The revolution's watchmen rose up because I was taking pictures of something they do not like," Houdova told journalists after returning to the Czech Republic.
The Communist regime of Fidel Castro denies the existence of slums on the island.
The two women spent 11 hours in police custody and were not allowed to contact the Czech embassy. Upon their release, the women were asked to sign a statement saying they would not travel beyond Havana, and they remained under police surveillance until their departure from the island, according to the Czech news source Ceskenoviny.
The photos Houdova saved will be included in an exhibition she plans to organize together with People in Need, a Czech humanitarian relief organization that has supported Cuba's pro-democracy opposition. The exhibition would portray Cuba’s beautiful scenery but also highlight its political oppression, Houdova disclosed.
During her 10-day stay in Cuba, Houdova said, her meetings with dissidents, the wives of political prisoners and ordinary Cubans reminded her of her childhood in Communist Czechoslovakia.
The Czech Foreign Ministry summoned the Cuban charge d'affairs in Prague to explain the conduct of the Cuban authorities in arresting the two women.
Czech-Cuban political relations have been frozen since the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989. The Czech Republic has attempted several times to push through U.N. resolutions critical of Castro’s regime over its record on human rights.
Sounds interesting.
I know it has been retouched, but...golly gee!
Any chance of this being posted on the Castro Loving DU?
LOL!
BTW, all Freepers are beautiful. :-)
After seeing the picture in post 4, I would have to agree with you. What has happened to the men in Cuba these day? Have they all gone brokeback?
Anna Nicole Smith - accused of smuggling two bald midgets in her bra.
I'd give her a hand... or two...
Wow! Czech-Mate!
That is one brave young lady.
GOOD for her.
BTTT
I will gladly volunteer to strip search all female runway models entering the country... we've got to stop this kind of thing! hehe
Judging by the posts that are getting zotted by the mods, I'd say this is driving some of the DUmmies out of the woodwork here.
We had some Czechs come here (EGLIN AFB) for some training a couple years back. They would come to the tennis courts with their soccer ball and play a game I've never seen before or since. It was like volleyball with a tennis net and they couldn't use their hands, only feet! Amazing dexterity on these guys!..........or is that poderity?......
LOL. I guess it's best to console yourself with "perhaps she won't age well."
Then again, there are just some people worthy of respect on many levels. She may be one of them.
Beauty AND brains--nice to see!
Or perverted Freepers
"Even in SF, the Chinese immigrants speak out against Communism while the local schools there indoctrinate Americans into loving Marx."
That reminds me of what Solzhenitsyn's children went through while living in New England. The boys got in trouble by trying to enlighten the trendy Lefist teacher set.
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