Óscar Arias, former President of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, denounced the abuses committed by two other women

The Costa Rican journalist Eleonor Antillón told La Nación newspaper that, more than 30 years ago, when she was press advisor to Arias, she had been harbaded on behalf of the former president., who was then a candidate in the 1986 presidential election.

"She was sitting in front of her desk, she approached me, He took my hand and put it on his penis, which was erect. I pushed him and I got up and he threw himself on me", said the journalist, who admitted never to have denounced the facts, because" the company is not ready to believe us ".

Arias, 78 years old he has twice been President of Costa Rica (1986-1990 and 2006-2010) and is the most relevant figure of the country's politics in recent decades.. The former president rejected in a statement the prosecution known Tuesday.

The British journalist Emma Daly, who lived in Costa Rica in the 1980s and worked for the newspaper in English The Tico Times, she said that she was harbaded Arias in 1990 during a visit of the former president to Managua.

Daly, current director of communications at Human Rights Watch, told the newspaper The Washington Post What He asked a question to Arias in the lobby of a hotel, but the then President, instead of answering, touched his chest and told him "you do not wear a bra ".

Nervous, she only managed to answer "yes I take it". He did not denounce it either because he felt that it had not been done during those years in Central America.

The charges are known A day after the announcement, Costa Rican doctor Alexandra Arce von Herold reportedly reported Arias to local courts for badual harbadment in 2014.

"With regard to the information published today, I must say that I categorically reject the accusations that are made to me. I have never acted by not respecting the wishes of a womaneven less in the case of his freedom to establish relations with another person, "says a statement issued by Arias' lawyer Rodolfo Brenes.

The statement said she would no longer refer to the case because the court system was investigating him.