Deyci Alejandra Omaña Ortiz, better known by her Adult Film stage name Amaranta Hank, took her oath in Bogotá this week, formally joining the Colombian Senate for the 2026-2030 term.
Her path there was unconventional even by the standards of a Congress that has grown more diverse in recent cycles: she moved from journalism into adult film work in 2017, left the industry two years later, and then rebuilt a public career around advocacy for the very sector she’d departed.
The 33-year-old took her oath on Monday in Bogotá as a representative of the left-wing Historic Pact coalition.
Her win wasn’t a fluke or a protest vote gone viral; it was built into the mechanics of Colombia’s closed-list system. She placed 23rd on the Historic Pact’s closed Senate list, and the coalition’s overwhelming performance carried her across the threshold.
The bloc pulled in more than 4.2 million votes, 22.86 percent of the total, making it the most-backed list in the legislative elections and locking in 25 Senate seats for 2026-2030.
In practice, that means Omaña now sits alongside some of the Pact’s most recognizable figures. She’ll take her place in the Capitol beside prominent government party figures, including former health minister Carolina Corcho, Alex Flórez, Wilson Arias, Aída Avella, Isabel Cristina Zuleta, and David Racero.
Strip away the novelty of her biography, and what’s left is a fairly specific regulatory proposal.
Her campaign centered on a disruptive idea: formally regulating paid sexual activity in Colombia, an initiative aimed at pulling webcam modeling, platforms like OnlyFans, pornography, and both rural and urban sex work out of legal limbo. She has cited a figure of at least 500,000 women working in these fields nationally who currently lack any state protection.
Her framing of the issue is less about destigmatizing her own past and more about closing what she sees as a legal loophole.
Omaña argues there’s a glaring double standard around paid sexual labor, broadly consumed and widely tolerated, yet nobody has been willing to regulate it, and she wants clear rules with guaranteed labor and social rights for everyone working in the industry.
Her legislative ambitions aren’t confined to one issue. Reports have consistently noted plans to fold in broader social-policy work, particularly around mental health services and measures to combat sexual abuse, an agenda that positions her less as a single-issue lawmaker and more as someone trying to build credibility across adjacent social-policy lanes.
Omaña’s ascent lands inside a much larger political story. The Historic Pact, the coalition aligned with President Gustavo Petro, didn’t just win big; it fundamentally reshaped the Senate’s composition, and her seat is one visible symptom of that shift.
She’s also not arriving in government alone or without precedent: her elevation follows the earlier, controversial appointment of former performer Juan Carlos Florián as a deputy minister in the Ministry of Equality, meaning this is now a pattern rather than a one-off and one that has already tested how far Petro’s coalition is willing to defend unconventional picks against public backlash.
Her own response to that backlash has been unapologetic rather than defensive, delivered less through formal statements than through direct-to-camera social media, where she has framed the criticism itself as the real scandal, asking, in effect, why a past in adult entertainment should be disqualifying for elected office in a democracy that claims to have moved past old moral gatekeeping.
Whether her regulatory push on sex work gains real traction in a Congress still dominated by more traditional social views remains the open question, but her swearing-in alone guarantees the debate now has a seat at the table.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
Deyci Alejandra Omaña Ortiz, better known as Amaranta Hank, is now a sitting Colombian senator, not because her past was overlooked, but because she built her entire campaign around it.
Riding the Historic Pact’s dominant 2026 election performance, she turned her adult-industry background into a policy platform: legal recognition and labor protections for sex workers, webcam models, and online content creators, plus a broader push on mental health and abuse prevention.
The real story isn’t the novelty of her résumé; it’s that Colombia’s Congress now has a lawmaker actively pushing to regulate an industry that has long operated in legal gray zones, backed by the country’s strongest political bloc.
