The administration chief of Colombia’s President Abelardo De la Espriella told Congress that former President Gustavo Petro hired at least 48 women who were “trapped and exploited” for presidential parties.
During a hearing, DAPRE director Carlos Andres Rios claimed that Petro had 48 women “working in the Presidency, who were unfortunately exploited through temporary work contracts.”
We’re going to prove this to the Colombian people: how, unfortunately, the Casa de Nariño was set up, organized, and designed not for governing, but for partying there every day, bringing women there and engaging in behavior we should not be engaging in—behavior that sets a bad example.
DAPRE director Carlos Andres Rios
“Forty-eight women are already speaking with us about how, through a contract and an OPS, they were trapped and exploited in order to be with President Petro,” said Rios.
Former DAPRE director Angie Rodriguez, who was sacked by Petro in July, doubled down on her successor’s allegations and asked the former president to prove that the president managed a network of women, including child transvestites.
Were there transvestite children there? Answer me, Mr. President. Were there transvestite children there? I am asking you a question, and I have every right to ask it. Were there? And if there weren’t, uh… prove that what I am saying is a lie.
Angie Rodriguez
Last but not least, far-right magazine Semana published an interview with a woman identified as Deicy Jimenez, who claimed she as hired by Petro after meeting him on an adult website.
Jimenez even told Semana’s former presidential candidate Vicky Davila she trafficked drugs for the former president when he was senator.
VD: What happened on the day you say you transported drugs for Petro?
DJ: Yes, I was traveling, and he asked me as a favor to bring him some drugs.
VD: Were you outside of Bogotá?
DJ: Yes.
VD: How do you recall that favor Petro asked of you?
DJ: He asked me as the favor to bring him some drugs.
VD: Did you buy them?
DJ: Yes, I bought them somewhere. He gave me money.
VD: Did he give it to you in cash or deposit it for you?
DJ: In cash.
VD: How much money?
DJ: Three million pesos.
VD: What kind of drugs did you buy?
DJ: Cocaine.
VD: Where did you buy it?
DJ: I bought it from some people. I can’t say (publicly) their names or the location.
VD: Is it a gang?
DJ: Yes.
VD: Did he know you were going to buy the drugs from that gang?
DJ: Yes.
VD: At that time, was he a senator or the president?
DJ: A senator.
VD: How did you bring that drug in?
DJ: I brought it through the airport.
VD: You mean, on a plane?
DJ: Yeah.
VD: Did you get on a plane with Petro’s drugs?
DJ: Yes.
VD: How were the drugs packaged?
DJ: In bags.
VD: Like individual doses?
DJ: Yes.
VD: And where did you hide the drugs?
DJ: In my suitcase.
In a response, Petro denied having hired women for sex and claimed that the far-right attack were the result of authorities’ failure to sustain corruption allegations.
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