Miss Peru 'mistaken for prostitute' by African president

[Sarah_Jayne]

Miss Peru 'mistaken for prostitute' by African president

Miss Peru has sparked an international incident after allegedly being mistaken for a prostitute by Gabon's president.



Beauty queen Ivette Santa Maria says she had been offered an all-expense paid trip to an exotic African nation, lucrative sponsorship deals and a chance to be the star promoter of a new beauty contest.

She said after arriving at Gabonese President Omar Bongo's palace "he pressed a button and some sliding doors opened, revealing a large bed."

She added: "I told him I was not a prostitute, that I was a Miss Peru. I started to cry and panicked."

Miss Santa Maria stressed that the president never touched her, nor tried to stop her from fleeing and was probably not involved in what she calls a scheme by would-be pageant organisers who lured her to the West African nation.

Peru's UN ambassador in New York contacted his Gabonese counterpart "and expressed the Peruvian government's serious concern over the events", Peru's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Peru's Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez told reporters that his office was awaiting a response from Gabon's UN ambassador.

A spokesman for Bongo, Vincent Mavoungou Bouyou, said by telephone from the Gabonese capital, Libreville, that he was unaware of the allegations.

Miss Santa Maria said she received a phone call several months ago from an Argentine woman claiming to be a publicist working on the launch of a new Miss Humanity beauty pageant in Libreville.

She says she was offered £800 for a week's work, a suite in the Inter-Continental Hotel and the possibility of sponsorship deals with companies such as Air Gabon.

Santa Maria said she arrived in Libreville with her boyfriend on January 19 but was taken alone to the presidential palace. She took a lift that opened into a wood-panelled room. Bongo came down shortly afterward. "I felt silly because I couldn't communicate with him, not speaking French," she said.

She said she fled the room and was running around the palace grounds when guards offered to drive her back to her hotel. When the car took a different route, she feared she was being abducted and jumped out.

Back at the hotel, pageant organisers and government officials apologised for "any misunderstanding," Santa Maria said. But she said it took until Friday to settle her hotel bill, and she left Gabon for South America soon after.

[Ross]

If thats the best they got then I won't be heading to Peru anytime soon.

[lock]

Originally posted by Ross
If thats the best they got then I won't be heading to Peru anytime soon.

hahahhhaaaaaa


And she dresses like a ho

[KraZ]

Is that Miss Peru's best photo? 'Cos it sure sux!

[Platinum Adam]

Originally posted by Ross
If thats the best they got then I won't be heading to Peru anytime soon.

LOL!

Damn

[BVF]

Bullshit. She's a foreigner riding around in an African country and she just "jumps out" of the car and makes her own way to the hotel?

A near white looking girl walking around with a bunch of french speaking africans???

If you have ever seen the streets of a typical african country, there is no way you would even think about getting out of that car if you don't know the area.

[Paul Markham]

Originally posted by Ross
If thats the best they got then I won't be heading to Peru anytime soon.

Right. Take off the mauke up and that's nothing special.

[Paul Markham]

Originally posted by BVF
Bullshit. She's a foreigner riding around in an African country and she just "jumps out" of the car and makes her own way to the hotel?

A near white looking girl walking around with a bunch of french speaking africans???

If you have ever seen the streets of a typical african country, there is no way you would even think about getting out of that car if you don't know the area.

What even if she thinks she is being abducted?

Or are you being racist? Would it be different in France or Czech?

She was frightened, it could of happened.

[playa]

I heard similar stories with these pagent winners..

Apparently Saudi prince's and other wealthy people tend to give these pagent winners all expense paid trips. Some give up the pussy some don't. this one happens to not play that

[BVF]

Originally posted by charly
Or are you being racist? Would it be different in France or Czech?

um...I'm AFRICAN-AMERICAN. How in the fuck am I being racist? Name one African country that you've been to where you've actually seen the street system firsthand? I'll bet big that you've never been there.

France has street lights, street signs, tourist help centers, etc.

I don't know what Czech has but I know how I felt when I first saw the streets in Nigeria. It was mass fucking confusion and I was terrified. But after awhile, I was able to walk around on that same street after I got used to it. But there would have been no fucking way I could have navigated those streets by myself the first time I saw them.

[Paul Markham]

What I'm saying is if you think you are being abducted you get out of the car and run, where ever you are.

[BVF]

Originally posted by charly
What I'm saying is if you think you are being abducted you get out of the car and run, where ever you are.

Then you could have said just that. Don't come at me with the racist crap.

[foolio]

I had no idea Africans spoke French. I always thought they spoke like they did in "The Gods Must Be Crazy"

[serious]

"he pressed a button and some sliding doors opened, revealing a large bed."

sweet i want that

[kmanrox]

'Treat her Like a Prostitute'

[Giorgio_Xo]

Originally posted by Ross
If thats the best they got then I won't be heading to Peru anytime soon.

Much finer women in Peru but no major lookers.