In addition, Juan Carlos Florián is a political scientist and has experience in public and international organizations. The president chose him after the departure of Carlos Rosero.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrodesignated as new Minister of Equality to Juan Carlos Floriánpolitical scientist, former porn actor and current vice minister of diversities. His appointment generated repercussions for his past as a sex worker and creator of adult content, in addition to the inmates that the portfolio drags since his creation in 2023.
Juan Carlos Florián He is a graduate in Political sciences of the Javeriana University and has experience in public and international organizations. Also openly recognize having been Porn actor and sex worker during his exile in Paris. His designation was confirmed to AFP and already appears on the official site of the Presidency.
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“I have been more than porn actor”he said in an interview with El Espectador, in which he defended his work career: “I have more than 20 years of work experience in different international cooperation organizations and I was a public servant.”
From vice to minister in the midst of internal tensions
Florián held the position of Deputy Minister of Diversities. His rise occurs after the exit of Carlos Rosero and Vice President France Márquez, who left the ministry in February after denouncing “racism” In the government. The internal tension was exposed when Petro publicly rebuked Rosero for trying to say goodbye to Florián.
In that same council of ministers, the president revealed that Márquez had warned him that he would resign if he appointed Florián and the exactrico Porn Amaranta Hank. Petro replied: “That is not equality.”
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Petro’s response: past, exile and militancy
During the same intervention, the president defended Florián: “Florián and other of his former collaborators They had to exile and had to prostitute themselves in Paris. ” In addition, he recalled that he worked with him when he was Mayor of Bogotá And that in France he created a sexual workers’ union.
Florián also held charges in the District Tourism Institute and in the Ministry of Social Integration. In his passage through him Colombian Consulate in Paris He acted as a multiplier, in tasks linked to integration and rights.
Despite the controversy, Florián will assume a key ministry within the Petro government, in a context marked by the instability of his cabinet, where more than more than 50 changes of ministers.
Source: Ambito
