{UAH} Francia Marquez, Colombia's first Black woman vice president

Francia Marquez, Colombia's first Black woman vice president, had been celebrating and thanking the ancestors in ancestral prayers organized by residents of her home municipality in Suarez, Colombia, August 13, 2022.  

Marquez, a single mother and former housekeeper, will be Colombia's first Black woman vice president after a historic vote this last June saw the Andean country pick its first leftist president, Gustavo Petro. 

Marquez and Petro won 50.4% of the vote in June's election. 

Colombia's new vice president-elect hails from the municipality of Suarez, a rural area of Colombia's Cauca province. Around 80% of Cauca's population lives in some form of poverty.  

Marquez is a celebrated environmental activist whose opposition to gold mining in her home municipality of Suarez saw her receive the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2018 - as well as death threats from illegal armed groups.

Old, poor, uneducated, grumpy and with rotten village behaviours need not be allowed in civilized world.

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