Yidis Medina was convicted last month of taking bribes to agree to amend the Colombian constitution, posed nude for a men's magazine from her lovely new prison cell.
Medina, who is still facing separate kidnapping charges from an "unrelated" matter (wow-- how she does get around), told SoHo that politics hasn't really helped her in her quest for the perfect existence:
"What I want is to get out of political life, which has brought me so many unwelcome things," she said.
Classic understatement of the day. The unwelcome things include four years of house arrest, which she will serve following the kidnapping trial that is keeping her in the slammer, thanks to
taking illegal favors from government officials in return for voting for the constitutional amendment that permitted the 2006 re-election.
She says she went public with her tale of corruption after the government failed to deliver favors -- including being able to name her friends to local commissions in her home province -- that it had promised in exchange for her vote.
As for the kidnapping, the details are rather vague:
The prosecution announced on July 1 it is investigating Medina for possible ties to rebel group ELN, after a Bucaramanga lawmaker accused her of being involved in kidnapping.
Medina’s lawyer claims Medina simply was a victim of the crime, but the lawmaker accuses Medina of speaking to the kidnappers in a commanding tone and seemed connected to them.
Medina made a classic mistake of even speaking-- the kidnappers would have likley obeyed and become lost in her breasts had she merely exposed them, as she is doing now, from her posh new jail cell:
Via Colombia Reports and Reuters.