Cancino was publicly denounced by Yuly Viviana Vargas Ávila, advisor to the Directorate of Security, Citizen Coexistence and Government of the Ministry of the Interior, who pointed out the former vice minister and current president of the Special Assets Society (SAE) for sexual harassment and filed the corresponding complaint. before the Attorney General’s Office.
“Look, I think that here it has to be for everyone with the same meter. It happens to Colombia that only always cries for one eye. So, when it is from one side, then it seems very serious to them, but the same thing done on the other side seems perfect to them. I think women need to be surrounded here. You can imagine how horrible it is, how humiliating it is for you as a woman to go ask for a job and the guy decides to grope you, to see if he will give you a contract and then he says: ‘oh, I’m so sorry’ “said Senator Paloma Valencia.
“I do think that what is happening to Colombian women is disgusting. Throughout the world it has become very clear that victims are believed and they have to do a rigorous investigation. What does seem very strange is that the president (Gustavo Petro) has so much coverage from men who mistreat women. It’s not just this case, I thought it was disgusting to go to a lunch to see if they were going to hire him and the man put his hands in her shirt, drunk, lying on the floor, watching him kiss her. “It seems to you that everything is so absurd,” added the congresswoman.
“Also remember that during the campaign for Mayor (of Bogotá) Hollman Morris was accused by his ex-wife of abuse and many women, in Gustavo Petro’s party at that time, resigned from Holman Morris’ campaign. You have to see how they take it when the situation is the other way. What I would ask the president is that if he is going to be on the side of women, he is on the side of all women. Among other things, because here the victim is also a Petrist,” Valencia added, recalling the vehemence of the head of state to condemn these events when the alleged perpetrators are his opponents and to remain silent when scandals like this affect people from his own political movement.
See what Senator Paloma Valencia said about Diego Cancino, president of the Special Assets Society:
“I have known Diego Cancino for many years, since he was a councilor. We crossed paths in various spaces on human rights issues, but we never had a close relationship. We were never friends. As vice minister we met in the hallways, we helped each other”, manifested Yuly Viviana Vargas Ávila when pointing out that she was about to lose her job and that is why she asked him for help. “I give him my resume, the man calls me and we meet for lunch the next day. I told him yes, but then he told me that he had time that same day, October 9, for me to arrive at his apartment,” he added, in dialogue with SEMANA.
Already in said apartment, the woman said, Cancino tried to surpass her and even touched her private parts. Then, he says that Cancino told him “you’re great,” got up from his chair and approached him from behind. She says that he hugged her, put his hands under her blouse and touched her breasts without her consent. “In this situation I reacted quickly by getting him off of me and, faced with this, he took me by the hands, took me down from the bar chair where I was and tried to kiss me without my consent. “I pushed him away from me and told him that I did not want any type of relationship that was not political and/or professional and that my interest did not go beyond that, that he should please respect that limit,” he added. Later, he noted, She tried to continue the conversation normally, but given the harassment she called some acquaintances.
