Colombia set to have its first Black vice president
Francia Márquez and Marelen Castillo. Photos: Joaquín Sarmiento/AFP, Raúl Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images
No matter who wins Sunday’s presidential runoff in Colombia, the nation will have its first Black vice president.Afro Colombians “are overrepresented in the numbers of forcibly displaced people and victims of violence” from the decades-old in the country, Eduardo Restrepo, an anthropologist at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, tells Axios.Marelen Castillo, the running mate of conservative Rodolfo Hernández, is an industrial engineer and biochemist who is vice chancellor of a small Catholic university in Bogotá.
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