An online video showing a now-former Costa Rican official in her underwear has sparked a debate over the privacy of government workers in the Central American country — and cost the official her job this week.

The video shows Karina Bolanos, who had been Costa Rica’s vice minister of culture and youth since 2006, lying on a bed in her underwear and apparently talking to her lover.

“I miss you. I love you with all my soul. And everything that you see here is yours,” she says.

The cultural ministry said Monday that Bolanos would be leaving her post after a surge in journalistic reports and social media posts “connected with the private life of the vice minister.”

“Even though the information that has circulated is strictly related with the private life of Bolanos, and not with her work as a public official, she was released from her post so that she could face this in the private sphere,” the cultural ministry said in a statement, adding Costa Rica’s president authorized the move.

Bolanos, 39, told CNN en Español Tuesday that she recorded the private video in 2007, when she was separated from her husband, a Costa Rican congressman.

“It is a very old and personal video of mine, that really makes me very embarrassed with the Costa Rican people and I apologize, especially before the youth who I represent. … but also it has nothing that I should be ashamed of, and I think an injustice has been committed,” she said.

Bolanos said she did not have a chance to defend herself before she lost her job.

“I think as a woman, I had a right to defend myself and to speak. These are questions of my intimate private life that have nothing to do with my work,” she said.

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