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.
but she managed to smuggle out pictures she hid in her bra.
Sheesh...that's the first place I would have looked...
Comment 2:
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.
Nobody hates Communists like people who have suffered under them...
Amen that to that. The Czechs and Poles are the only ones who dare criticize Castro in the halls of the UN.
Ahem. Pictures?
"Nobody hates Communists like people who have suffered under them..."
Amen - my wife is originally from China and not happy with Commies - for that matter she says Dems are pretty much the same thing as commies.
More power to her.
How can you post a thread like this without pictures?
Too bad it wasn't Anna Nicole Smith -- they could have kept their car too!
"Nobody hates Communists like people who have suffered under them..."
Communists manage to combine arrogance and self righteousness to a very high level. They claim to be looking after the greater good, but that often means the individual suffers. And that's ok. The leadership never suffers, and always feels they are doing what's best, even if people die.
Now, if you're hungry, or without shelter, or whatever dire circumstance, and you have such leaders, you would have a white hot hate for communism.
Democrats display much that is characteristic of communism.
I was wondering that myself...and wow!
I applaud her bravery.
God bless the Czechs. Twenty years ago I thought them wimps, but they have proved to be as strong as the Poles.
What did I miss in #6? Dang it! :) I always miss the best photos!
BUMP.
Even in SF, the Chinese immigrants speak out against Communism while the local schools there indoctrinate Americans into loving Marx.
Good for her !
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