Environmental activist Francia Márquez has been named a candidate for the vice presidency of Colombia.
In an elaborately staged March 23 press conference in the capital of Bogotá, recorded on Facebook, Gustavo Petro—the presidential candidate of the Historic Pact coalition—announced that he was choosing Márquez to serve with him should he win the upcoming presidential elections.
“Hold on to your seats because we are going to take off and we will have some very intense days,” Petro assured Márquez while onstage, “undoubtedly very, very, very intense. But I am very happy in my heart that you are joining us on this journey that we are going to start today, and which ends in the Casa de Nariño [the presidential residence].”
“We are writing a new story for Colombia,” Márquez announced on her Twitter page. “From the vice presidency we will join our President @petrogustavo in the task of achieving a government for life, peace, justice and social equality.”Márquez is a nationally recognized activist and member of the Proceso de Comunidades Negras en Colombia .
Afro Colombian and Indigenous activists are regularly threatened and murdered in Colombia—a total of 145 community activists were killed in the nation in 2021.Gustavo Petro’s naming of Francia Márquez as his vice-presidential candidate is in line with an unprecedented trend in this year’s Colombian elections. Afro Colombians—the third highest population of Black people outside of Africa —have been prominent in national elections this year.
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