Colombia Elects first Black Female Vice President ~ WalkBrazil4K Travel Blog

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Colombia Elects first Black Female Vice President

 Colombia elects first Black woman VP Francia Marquez, who vows to stand for 'nobodies'


BOGOTA, June 20 (Reuters) - 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 its first leftist president, Gustavo Petro.

Marquez and Petro won 50.4% of the vote in Sunday's election.

In front of a background emblazoned with the phrase "change is unstoppable," Marquez thanked supporters from across Colombia for assisting her and Petro's campaign in a speech broadcast from Bogota.


"After 214 years we have achieved a government of the people, a popular government, a government of people with calloused hands ... the government of the nobodies of Colombia," she said.

Colombia's new vice president-elect hails from the municipality of Suarez, a rural area of Colombia's Cauca province. Around 80% of Cauca's population lives in some form of poverty.



 


Credit:reuters.com

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