Francia Márquez

Biography

Francia Márquez Francia Elena Márquez Mina (born 1 December 1981) is a Colombian politician who served as the 13th Vice President of Colombia from 2022 to 2026. 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...

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