Francia Márquez’s route to being elected the first Black female vice president of Colombia is still on track—even if it has hit a surprising hurdle.
Márquez, a Proceso de Comunidades Negras human-rights activist who has won awards for her environmental work, is campaigning alongside Senator Gustavo Petro, the leftist presidential candidate of the Pacto Histórico coalition, to govern the nation for the period of 2022 to 2026.
Again, if the Petro-Márquez ticket wins, Francia Márquez would become Colombia’s first Black, female vice president—and the first vice president with progressive leanings. Colombia has never, in its history, been governed by a leftist oriented administration. And Petro is a former left-wing guerrilla fighter from the now-defunct M-19 movement—a group that disarmed and became a left-wing political party.
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