Francia Tag

Francia Márquez Makes History Francia Márquez Makes History For the primary time in Colombia’s history, a Black woman is about to develop into vice chairman. Francia Márquez, an Afro-Colombian environmental activist and lawyer, won Sunday’s runoff election because the running mate to President-elect Gustavo Petro, the country’s first progressive leftist leader. Born within the small town of Yolombo, situated within the Suárez municipality of the Cauca Mountains in southwest Colombia, Márquez is a single mother of two who first became an activist on the age of 13, when the development of a dam threatened her community. She became pregnant at 16, left school to work within the local gold mines, and eventually sought work as a housekeeper. She went on to complete...