The #MeToo in Latin America: a former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate for sexual assault

A doctor and activist for nuclear disarmament has denounced before the judicial authorities of Costa Rica the former president of the country and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Oscar Arias for an alleged bad offense that occurred in December 2014.

The case was revealed on Tuesday by the Weekly University, which in his report includes extracts from the complaint and interview with the woman, Alexandra Arce von Herold, who is also the daughter of a former deputy of the same party to which Arias belongs.

According to an article The New York Times, Arce von Herold filed a criminal complaint with federal prosecutors, in a meeting that lasted nearly three hours.

The complaint was presented Monday and the former president's legal team said he would not refer to the case until he thoroughly badyzed the content.

The complainant is described by the Weekly University as a doctor and activist for nuclear disarmament He claimed to have been a victim of rape at a meeting with Arias at the former president.

The history of the woman indicates that Arias touched her bads, kissed her and put her fingers in her badeven though she asked him to stop.

"I was as if I did not know what to do, I felt trapped at that time"says the woman at the weekly university.

According to the complainant, Arias, President twice (1986-1990 and 2006-2010), She left the office they were in and asked her to go elsewhere, which she took advantage of to leave the premises.

"The doctor was 30 years old at the time and was running the Costa Rican branch of an international NGO dedicated to activism for abolish nuclear weapons and had known the Nobel Prize through his mother, who was a member of the National Liberation Party (PLN) ", which belongs to Arias, said the Weekly.

According to the story, She went to the former president to give him a file containing information on the anti-nuclear campaign, because he gave his support to the cause.

"The doctor says that from December 2014 to this day she has gone through different moods and had mixed feelings on the subject. Sometimes, he says, he was anxious to completely forget this episode and in others he felt encouraged to file a public or judicial complaint, "according to the report of the Weekly University.

According to the complainant, the decision to file the complaint is due to the fact that it considers that There is a supportive context after other women around the world have complained and been treated, says the report.

"With regard to the information published today (Tuesday), 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.

"In my public life, I promoted gender equality", adds the text, in which Arias also ensures that he will defend the complaint in court.

Arias won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for negotiating a plan to end the civil war in Central America. He remains the most powerful personality in Costa Rica, where he served for two terms and continues to work on a platform that promotes peace and democracy.

He is also facing criminal negligence charges related to his decision to approve in 2008. a gold mining project by a Canadian company in an ecological corridor before the environmental studies are completed.