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19
June
2022

Francia Márquez is elected vice-president

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📅 19 June 2022 📍 Colombia

Francia Márquez was elected Colombia's first Black woman vice-president on the ticket with Gustavo Petro. An environmental and community organizer, she brought Afro-Colombian territorial struggles into national executive politics. The election broke a representational barrier without demonstrating that the racial and gender hierarchies contested by those movements had ended.

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Francia Márquez

Gustavo Petro

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Pacto Histórico

Afro-Colombian movements