Vallenata legend Poncho Zuleta, 72, is being widely criticized on social networks after a video was released in which the singer presses the young performer Karen Lizarazo against his body and tries to bring his mouth closer to the face of the artist in search of a kiss.
In the images, not only is the discomfort of the 31-year-old singer noticeable, but she herself separates him a few at a time and with subtle gestures, preventing the moment from becoming bigger and considering that it is about Zuleta, a highly respected figure in Vallenato, which is the genre to which the young woman dedicates her artistic life.
For this, Zuleta has been accused of having sexually harassed Lizarazo and criticism has rained down on him, particularly on Twitter, a network in which the video shared by a user went viral.
“Awkward moment and this. Obviously there you can see how this man ‘Poncho Zuleta’ harasses the singer ‘Karen Lizarazo’ and although she ‘kissed him’, it is clear that she did it due to social pressure or perhaps to avoid being harassed. Yuck!” says a tweeter.
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Political figures have joined the criticism, in particular women such as Senator Angélica Lozano, who cataloged Zuleta’s actions as “harassment with all its letters.” “He takes her by force, tries to kiss her on several occasions and uses his position of power as a vallenato minstrel to subdue her before an audience that does nothing,” criticized Lozano.
The same senator, in addition, lamented in another trill that women had to experience “disgusting sexist attacks” in order to open spaces in the music industry. Words to which the senator for Commons, Sandra Ramírez, added: “Gender violence, mistreatment of women and harassment of all kinds are behaviors that deserve to be prosecuted.”
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