Porn Actresses Play Big Role in Colombia’s Presidential Election

While here in the United States Stormy Daniels has become a sudden fixture on the political scene, about 3,500 miles to the south, in the country of Colombia, not one but two porn performers have inserted themselves into the current presidential race there—a race pitting far-left candidate Gustavo Pietro, the former mayor of Bogota who started his career in the 1970s as a member of the Marxist M-19 revolutionary guerrilla group, against  “moderate” right-wing former Senator Ivan Duque. Duque is the frontrunner in the presidential election to be held on Sunday, but in an effort to drum up support for her chosen candidate, the underdog Pietro, the 27-year-old sports reporter-turned-porn-actress Alejandra Omana (pictured above) has pledged to shoot her first gang bang video if the leftist wins the June 17 election. “If Gustavo Petro wins this presidential election, I make my first gang bang with 5 Colombians,” Omana, who performs in porn under the name Amaranta Hank, wrote on her Twitter account in April. She followed up with a message posted a week ago. “I think we can start talking about my gang bang, because I see @petrogustavo as our president,” she wrote on Twitter. “It is going to be a requirement to file a second round ballot. So vote if you want to participate.” The polls in Colombia do not paint quite as sunny a picture. With Pietro trailing from between six and 20 percentage points in six separate polls released last week, the prospect of Omana shooting her first gang bang scene appear bleak—unless she finds some other reason to do it. Omana, then simply a sports journalist covering professional soccer, shot to national fame in Colombia three years ago, when she pledged to pose for a nude photo spread if her favorite team won promotion from Colombia’s second division to the country’s top flight. When her beloved Deportivo Cucuta club did just that to finish out the 2015 season, Omana made good on her pledge—a move that opened up an entirely new vista for her career. But Omana aka “Hank” was not the only porn performer to find herself in the middle of the heated presidential contest. A name more familiar to American porn audiences, Mia Khalifa, also saw her name come up when rumors spread throughout Colombian media and political circles that Khalifa—who briefly held the title of “most searched-for porn star on the planet”—was actually Pietro’s illegitimate daughter. Needless to say, that rumor was completely false, but Pietro’s supporters sarcastically embraced it, even coaxing Khalifa to pose for a picture in a somewhat revealing “Pietro for President” tank top. That picture can be seen at this link.  Finally, though she declined to endorse either candidate, a third porn performer also found time to comment on the upcoming election. Esperanza Gomez, considered the most famous Colombian porn star—though Omana is giving her a run for her money—chimed in with her well wishes, simply saying, "May God grant us Colombians a miracle so that we may finally have a good president who works for the benefit of the country.” Colombia’s current president, Juan Manuel Santos, was awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an end to the Colombian government’s 50-year-long war with the leftists paramilitary organization FARC—though the peace treaty earned Santos the scorn of Colombia’s far right wing. Photo via Soho Video Screen Capture