The Secret Service is investigating reports that agents hired prostitutes in El Salvador a year before a similar scandal broke out in Colombia this month. Secret Service agents reportedly got drunk at a strip club in San Salvador, paid for sexual acts and brought escorts to their rooms, bragging that they “did this all the time.” The alleged incident happened in 2011 just days before President Obama arrived for a state visit. Secret Service agents and U.S. military personnel were reportedly both involved in a prostitution scandal earlier this month that overshadowed Obama’s visit to Colombia. Meanwhile, in Brazil, a former sex worker says she plans to sue five U.S. embassy personnel for reportedly assaulting her outside a strip club last year. Romilda Aparecida Ferreira said she was badly injured after she was thrown out of an embassy van and run over.

Romilda Aparecida Ferreira: “They grabbed me by the waist and threw me out of the van. That was when I tried to get up, and then I felt my leg burning because I had fallen under the van and one of the tires ran over me. They left me there and drove off.”