Francia Márquez
✓ Source-basedrising13th Vice President of Colombia (2022-2026)
Francia Elena Márquez Mina is a Colombian politician who served as the 13th Vice President of Colombia from 2022 to 2026. She was born in Yolombó, Cauca, a village in the southwest of Colombia. She first became an activist at 13, when construction of a dam threatened her community.
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Salvajina hydroelectric dam, Cauca department in 2010
Residents of Yolombó, Cauca
Illegal mining in the Cauca department
Márquez at the peace negotiations in 2016
Francia Márquez during her presidential campaign in 2022.
Márquez met with President of Chile Gabriel Boric in 2022
Márquez with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in 2022In their own words 10
This situation of armed conflict and abandonment in terms of no social investment, that needs to be brought to a halt.
Interview with Democracy Now (2022)
I have been proposing a program of agroecological productive projects and with the idea of food sovereignty being the top issue.
Interview with Democracy Now (2022)
That is a history that is repeated day after day. Mothers go to work in the homes of other families, and they come home to bury their children. That is the history of our country.
Interview with Democracy Now (2022)
Awards 3
Connected to Francia 6
Bertha CáceresAlso won Goldman Environmental Prize
Bob BrownAlso won Goldman Environmental Prize
Patricia ArizaAlso won Premio Nacional a la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Colombia
Ken Saro-WiwaAlso won Goldman Environmental Prize
Medha PatkarAlso won Goldman Environmental Prize
Marina SilvaAlso won Goldman Environmental PrizeAbout this person
Francia Elena Márquez Mina is a Colombian politician who served as the 13th Vice President of Colombia from 2022 to 2026. She was born in Yolombó, Cauca, a village in the southwest of Colombia. She first became an activist at 13, when construction of a dam threatened her community. On taking office, she became the first Afro-Colombian vice president in the country's history. She is also the second woman to hold the post, after Marta Lucía Ramírez.
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