Who is the Vice President of Colombia?

France Elena Márquez Mina She was born on December 1, 1981 (age 41 years old), in the village of Yolombó in the municipality of Suarez, department of Cauca, located in the territory of an Afro-descendant community. The municipality of Suarez is a municipality where there is a presence of organized groups outside the law, that is, armed groups that live off drug trafficking, war, and the illegal exploitation of mining.

Her childhood, according to her account (Francia Marquez), "was marked by spending time at my maternal grandparents' house, another time with my mother, and the rest with my paternal grandparents." Her mother is a midwife, which means that her job is to assist women in childbirth; In the past, this trade was exercised only by women based on traditional experience and currently requires specific qualifications, her mother is also a farmer, and a miner. Her father is an agro miner and worker.

France Elena Márquez Mina at the age of 16 had the first of her two children, which she raised as a single mother. During her adolescence she worked as an artisanal gold miner in her municipality which is a small-scale miner, she is a subsistence miner who is not officially employed by a mining company, but works independently, extracting minerals using her resources, usually at hand, she also worked as a domestic employee in the city of Cali.

She was the legal representative of the Community Council of the village of La Toma de Suárez, in the north of the department of Cauca, where she opposed indiscriminate mining exploitation and the indiscriminate delivery of mining titles due to the negative impact of these activities, such as the deterioration of the environment and the forced displacement of communities. This earned her threats and attempts on her life, but also international recognition as a defender of human rights and the environment. She has received various distinctions for her social and environmental activities, including the Goldman prize for the environment and the Joan Alsina prize for human rights. humans.

She was president of the National Council for Peace and Coexistence in 2020, where he was in charge of monitoring compliance with the peace agreements. Between the FARC and the government of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon. She participated in the inclusion of the Afro-descendant ethnic chapter in the peace agreements.

Márquez graduated as an agricultural technician from the National Learning Service (SENA). In 2020 as a lawyer from Santiago de Cali University. In 2021 he started a specialization in creative writing at ICESI University.

France Elena Marquez Mina is a Colombian social leader, environmental activist, human rights defender, feminist, lawyer, and politician. Since August 7, 2022, she is the Vice President of the Republic of Colombia. She is the second woman to be vice president of the nation and the first of Afro-Colombian origin. On January 4, 2023, she was appointed by the President of Colombia Gustavo Petro as the first Minister of Equality and Equity.

France Elena Marquez Mina is a benchmark for improvement for the people of Colombia because she shows that no matter how difficult it may be, we can all achieve our dreams. You must have a fixed focus, and a fixed goal and work for it until you achieve it.