Esperanza Gomez Claims Abelardo de la Espriella Government Could Roll Back Women’s Rights
Esperanza Gomez has claimed that Abelardo de la Espriella’s incoming Government could seek to roll back women’s rights in Colombia, making the remarks during an interview on the digital program Piso 8.
The actress and businesswoman linked her concerns to the growing influence of the tradwife movement, a social media trend promoting traditional gender roles, and argued that the issue extends far beyond debates over voting rights. Although Gomez said she had received information suggesting such proposals exist within the incoming administration, she did not provide any public documents or evidence to support the allegation, leaving her claims open to public debate.
Why Esperanza Gomez linked the tradwife movement to Colombian politics
Gomez framed the tradwife phenomenon as something far larger than a passing online aesthetic, insisting the real danger extends well beyond restricting women’s right to vote alone.
“Behind that there is much more,” she said, pushing back directly when asked whether her concern stopped at voting rights, and clarifying that the underlying threat touches traditional culture itself, not just one specific legal right.
She then pivoted from that international conversation straight into a warning about her own country, urging Colombians not to grow complacent: “Colombia, don’t relax, because with the new Government the proposal comes included to take away women’s rights”.
Esperanza Gomez offered no public evidence for her claims
Pressed directly on whether this alleged restriction actually appears anywhere in a formal Government plan, Gomez never pointed to any public document or verifiable precedent, relying instead on information she described as exclusive and impossible to share openly.
“I have it from some information… I mean, I have a lot of information about certain things that I cannot talk about, but in this Government it comes included,” she said, a response that left her claim resting entirely on her own credibility rather than any evidence interviewers could independently verify. That gap between her certainty and the complete absence of supporting documentation quickly became the central point of debate once her comments began circulating across social media.
Esperanza Gomez also criticized free expression in Colombia
Gomez also explained why she refused to elaborate further in public, arguing that speaking too openly under Colombia’s incoming far-right Government now carries real personal risk: “Because in this country one can no longer do that. I mean, freedom of expression with this Government was also lost”.
She widened that critique into a broader skepticism about democracy itself, arguing that Colombians believe they hold a genuine right to choose their leaders, when in reality no country anywhere truly delivers on democracy’s promise, closing with an even blunter conclusion: “Democracy really doesn’t exist, has never existed, and never will exist”. Her remarks split reactions sharply online, drawing admiration from supporters who praised her willingness to speak up despite the risk she described, while critics sympathetic to the incoming Government dismissed her comments as alarmist rhetoric disconnected from any real political substance.
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