Francia Márquez, vice president of Colombia, shouts on the July cover of La Garganta Poderosa

Direct from Colombia, Francia Márquez arrived at the July cover of La Garganta Poderosa. This is the vice president-elect, a mine worker, a farmer of our wisdom, a feminist of our trails and a black of our paddocks.” We have to achieve peace for Colombia, there are many territories that live in the midst of violence,” said the woman in dialogue with the media that publishes a monthly edition and defines itself as an Argentine magazine of villera culture.
“In a country with more than 9 million victims in democracy, in this relentless note we thank you for your fist raised and for the encounter,” they say and quote the new vice president of Colombia: “We have to face the environmental crisis: put nature at the center. The privileged elite has not wanted a black, impoverished, racialized woman who is a victim of the armed conflict to be in government,” France said in a dialogue with the media. Last year’s social outburst, caused by the tax reform implemented by Iván Duque, left at least 94 people dead, thousands injured, hundreds of unjustly detained and prosecuted and allegations of sexual violence by the Security Forces,” they added.

The first words of France, after the victory, demanded a change of roots: “After 214 years we have achieved a government of the people, of the people with calloused hands, of the nobody and the nobody of Colombia.” Finally, the woman left a message for the bastardized blacks of the region: “Latin America has 200 million Afro-descendants and racism is in any country. It’s not enough to be a feminist if you’re not anti-capitalist, if you’re not anti-colonial, if you’re not anti-racist.”

Original source in Spanish