globalEyeNews Video Report: Striptease Pole Trouble for Mexican Politician ABC News Video Dalia Perez: Politician Under Fire for Striptease
Before winning a seat in Veracruz state's legislature in September, Dalia Perez worked as a local TV show host. Getting her big raves today, however, is an image of her in a striptease scene from the 2006 film Xalapeno Chiles, a film she co-starred in back in 2006. In the film she plays a stripper having an affair with a powerful politician. A clip from the film posted on YouTube this past week depicting Perez performing a pole-dance striptease in very revealing fashion. An image, apparently from the clip, was aired last Thursday during Mexico's top morning television news show.
Xalapeno Chile was never released, but it is a black market DVD best-seller, with sales of pirated copies flourishing. Notwithstanding, her political rivals, perhaps, with less impressive physical credentials, are making big hay over the leak. Perez and her supporters accuse detractors of a sinister gender bashing agenda ripe from within the male dominated political machine in Mexico.
Perez is no stranger to trouble from matters of the sexually controversial. During the course of her her recent political campaign Perez had to deflect criticism resulting from a role in a music video in which she played a teacher who was having an affair with an underage student. In spite of her detractors, the Veracruz voting public extended her the ultimate vote of confidence. In fact, several Mexican actresses have won election to Mexico's Senate despite saucy acting roles, including Silvia Pinal, Maria Rojo and Irma Serrano. A follow-up YouTube search just might be in order.
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