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Article: My tour of 'beautiful' Guantanamo Bay, by Miss Universe
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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Wishing for world peace is so passe; nowadays Miss Universe can
be found blogging about Guantanamo Bay.
"I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm
and beautiful," Dayana Mendoza gushed at the end of a five-day trip.
It may not be a sentiment that Binyam Mohamed would share about his
time at the US base in Cuba, but then he wasn't buying souvenir
necklaces to take home at the end of his four years of
incarceration.
Ms Mendoza, a Venezuelan model, was crowned Miss Universe last
summer. Since then, she has clocked up stops in Indonesia, Spain,
the Bahamas and Puerto Rico. "This week, Guantanamo!!!" she
trumpeted on her blog.
Her visit to the base was designed as a ...