Dayana Mendoza is a creepy lady. I don't care who thinks she deserves to be hailed as "Miss Universe". She's not royalty, nor sane. Read what she
said about 1 of the government's worst torture-camps:
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Ever wondered what it takes to be Miss Universe? Thanks to Venezuela's Dayana Mendoza, we can now be sure it's not a finely tuned sense of current
events. The reigning beauty queen visited Guantanamo Bay last week, courtesy of the U.S.O, and, in a truly astonishing feat of self-parody, wrote the
following description of her trip, including rave reviews of the jails, the military dogs, and of course, the beaches.
I am posting it in its entirety, in case the original post is removed for being just too damn embarrassing to beauty queens everywhere. (Perhaps
somewhere Miss Teen South Carolina is feeling a little bit better.)
(H/T Arun Gupta for not allowing this to go unnoticed.)
We arrived in Gitmo on Friday and stared going around the town, everybody knew Crystle [Stewart, Miss USA] and I were coming so the first thing we did
was attend a big lunch and then we visited one of the bars they have in the base. We talked about Gitmo and what is was like living there. The next
days we had a wonderful time, this truly was a memorable trip! We hung out with the guys from the East Coast and they showed us the boat inside and
out, how they work and what they do, we took a ride around the land and it was a loooot of fun!
We also met the Military dogs, and they did a very nice demonstration of their skills. All the guys from the Army were amazing with us.
We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very
interesting.
We took a ride with the Marines around the land to see the division of Gitmo and Cuba while they were informed us with a little bit of history.
The water in Guantanamo Bay is soooo beautiful! It was unbelievable, we were able to enjoy it for at least an hour. We went to the glass beach, and
realized the name of it comes from the little pieces of broken glass from hundred of years ago. It is pretty to see all the colors shining with the
sun. That day we met a beautiful lady named Rebeca who does wonders with the glasses from the beach. She creates jewelry with it and of course I
bought a necklace from her that will remind me off Guantanamo Bay
I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.
I was back in NY on Wednesday and on Thursday I did some paper work at the office and went out for dinner. On Friday I flew to Miami for the weekend
because I had a photo shoot for the magazine People en Espanol. So hopefully I might be a little lucky and have some time off to take the sun for a
while
