One of Prague’s prettiest pooters got thrown into Castro’s clink this last week for having the temerity to photograph any impoverished Havana youth not lucky enough to be named Elian Gonzalez:

CZECH supermodel Helena Houdova took a break from the catwalk to visit communist Cuba and was arrested for taking photographs in a slum, she said today.

The former Miss Czech Republic 1999 runs a foundation in New York that supports disadvantaged children in nine countries, and she wanted to see what she could do to help in Cuba.

Besides seductively unknotting your sarong to reveal an exposed and moistened derringer in your garter belt? Prior to lodging both hollow-point slugs into Castro’s catcher’s mitt of a face?

But on Monday, Cuban security police detained Houdova and her travel companion, Czech psychologist Mariana Kroftova, while they were taking photographs in the poor Havana neighbourhood of Arroyo Naranjo.

The two women were held overnight in police custody and not allowed to call the Czech Embassy.

They were released 11 hours later after signing a letter vowing not to engage in “counter-revolutionary” activities, the model said.

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Police confiscated photographic film, but Houdova said she managed to hide the memory card from her digital camera in her bra.

“They screamed at us. We were afraid,” Houdova said. “We grew up under communism and know what it is like.”

Screaming at women and making them cry. Just who does Castro think he is? A ranking member of a US Senate Judiciary Committee?

They didn’t strip search her to find the missing memory card? Sorry Fidel, but you are now officially gay until proven innocent.

Then again, Comandante has been falling down on the job a lot lately.

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