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Francia Márquez

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13th Vice President of Colombia (2022-2026)

PoliticiansBorn 1982 · age 43
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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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Francia Márquez
said · 2022
Own words

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)

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Francia Márquez
said · 2022
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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)

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Francia Márquez
said · 2022
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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)

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Awards 3

2019BBC 100 Women
2018Goldman Environmental Prize
2015Premio Nacional a la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Colombia

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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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Born 1982 · age 43
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