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'A loooot of fun': Miss Universe's verdict on Guantanamo Bay | Mail OnlineReigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela has described the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison as a ‘relaxing, calm and beautiful place’.
The 22-year-old heaped on the praise during a visit to the detention centre in Cuba, which holds around 240 prisoners and has drawn condemnation from around the world.
Caracas-born Mendoza, who visited the facility in March along with Miss USA Crystle Stewart, 27, enthused about her Guantanamo trip as an 'incredible experience' in a blog entry posted on the Miss Universe website dated March 27, 2009.
'It was a loooot of fun!,' Mendoza wrote, describing how she and Stewart met U.S. military personnel and took rides around the camp, which is encircled by a barbed-wire fenced, minefields and watchtowers. She said they also visited a bar on the base and the 'unbelievable' beach there.
'We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the(y) recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting,' she wrote.
'I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful,' she added.
Former detainees and human rights groups have alleged the use of torture, including 'waterboarding' (simulated drowning) and other physical abuses, at the Guantanamo prison.
In a clarification statement which Mendoza also posted on her blog, the Miss Universe Organisation said the trip to Guantanamo was part of a longstanding relationship with the USO and its entertainment program 'which boosts the morale of U.S. troops.'
I always knew those terrorists bastards were lying