“Let’s go, bitch – I’m not going to pay you,” she said that he
told her before throwing her out of the room in the early morning.
A Secret Service investigation into “misconduct” has resulted in
nine of the 12 agents that made up the president’s advance security team to
Cartegena losing their jobs. But Miss Suarez said that although she was at
the heart of the scandal, she had not been interviewed by US investigators.
A visibly angry Congressman King said this weekend: “I have asked the
Secret Service for an explanation of how they have failed to find this woman
when the news media seems to have no trouble doing so.”
Mr King said it was important that she was interviewed to ensure that the
president’s security was not compromised. A Secret Service source told The
Sunday Telegraph that “no stone will be left unturned” and that Mr
King’s demands were being taken very seriously.
Miss Suarez said in her interview that she and some girlfriends had met a
group of American men in a bar on April 11 and drank two bottles of vodka
with them. She had no idea that they worked for the Secret Service when one
of them asked her to return with him to his hotel room.
Miss Suarez agreed to go after the agent promised to give her a “little
gift” of $800-dollars. But next morning he threw her out without paying
and when she knocked on the hotel room door of another agent he refused to
help her.
Miss Suarez said: “I said in Spanish, ‘Look, if you show no consideration
for me, why would I have consideration toward you and not call the police?
In that moment, I felt strong’.”
Prostitution is legal in Colombia and Miss Suarez said she had every right to
be paid for her services. She said: “I told him, there’s a problem
here. Because if I had come with you to enjoy myself that would have been
one thing. But I didn’t come to enjoy myself. I had to beg from 6.30 am to
10.00 am for him to pay me.”
At first the agent offered her about $27 to pay for a taxi home and eventually
after she returned to the hotel room with a police officer he gave her
$250-dollars (£155)
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