Colombia’s President Faces Claims of Affair With Transgender Woman
It would be a sensational plotline even for a telenovela: a guerrilla fighter turned man-of-peace becomes president of a devoutly Catholic country–then is engulfed in a rumored affair with the nation’s first transgender TV reporter.
But in Colombia, it is real and has left the country’s political class reeling.
It began when President Gustavo Petro was spotted on an official visit to neighboring Panama, not with his wife of 20 years, but with Linda Yepes, who made history as Colombia’s first transgender female TV reporter, Telemundo reported.