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Francia Elena Márquez Mina (born 1 December 1981) is a Colombian human-rights and environmental activist and lawyer, who is the 13th and current Vice President of Colombia. She was born in Yolombó, [b] a village in the Suarez municipality in Cauca Department . [7]
Jun 19, 2022 · Francia Márquez, an environmental activist from the mountainous department of Cauca in southwestern Colombia, has become a national phenomenon, mobilizing decades of voter frustration, and...
Francia Márquez is a Colombian activist who led a successful campaign to stop illegal gold mining on her community's ancestral land. She organized a 350-mile march of women to Bogota, where she negotiated with the government and won a historic agreement to end the environmental and social destruction.
Jan 20, 2023 · Francia Márquez is a social activist and lawyer who became Colombia's first Black vice president in 2022. She talks to POLITICO about her fight for racial justice, climate action and global reparations for Afro-Colombians and other descendants of enslaved people.
7 minutes ago · Francia Márquez Mina, vicepresidenta de Colombia, denunció un atentado contra su padre, Sigifredo Márquez Trujillo, ocurrido el 16 de junio en la vía entre Timba y Robles, entre los ...
Jun 20, 2022 · Francia Marquez, a single mother and former housekeeper, will be Colombia's first Black woman vice president after a historic vote on Sunday saw the Andean country pick...
Aug 17, 2023 · Francia Márquez, a former activist and community leader, talks about her first year in office with EL PAÍS. She discusses her challenges, lessons and goals as the nation's first Minister of Equality and the vice president of African heritage.
