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Francia Márquez
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Vice President of Colombia
Key facts
- President
- Gustavo Petro
- Preceded by
- Marta Lucía Ramírez
- Succeeded by
- Carlos Rosero
- Born
- Francia Elena Márquez Mina , ( 1981-12-01 ) 1 December 1981 (age 44) , Yolombó, Cauca , Colombia
- Party
- Soy Porque Somos , (2021–present)
- Other political affiliations
- Alternative Democratic Pole , (2021–2023), Historic Pact for Colombia , (2021–2025)
- Domestic partner
- Yerney Pinillo (since 2020)
- Education
- National Learning Service
- Alma mater
- Santiago de Cali University ( LLB , 2020) National Pedagogic University ( EdD , 2023)
- Profession
- Lawyer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elena
- Family name
- Márquez
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Colombia
- Place of birth
- Suárez
- Occupation
- environmentalist
- Political party
- Historic Pact
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Award
- BBC 100 Women
- Movement
- feminism
- Official website
- www.franciamarquezmina.com
- Image
- Vicepresidenta Francia Márquez en su despacho.jpg
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- ethnic group
- Afro-Colombians
- date of birth
- 1981-12-01
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- Commons category
- Francia Márquez
- name in native language
- Francia Elena Márquez Mina
- social media followers
- 1102951
- political coalition
- Historic Pact
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/world/americas/francia-marquez-vice-president-colombia.html
- member of
- Presidency of Gustavo Petro
- P10632
- Francia Márquez
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Encyclopedic overview
Francia Elena Márquez Mina (born 1 December 1981) is a Colombian politician who is the 13th and current Vice President of Colombia since 2022. 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.
In 2018, she was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work to stop illegal gold mining in her community of La Toma and for her community organising. Márquez led a protest march of 80 women who trekked 560 kilometres (350 miles) to the capital city of Bogotá, and demanded the removal of all illegal miners from their community. In 2019, the BBC listed Francia Márquez on their 100 Women list for that year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Francia Márquez” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.