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When Colombians on Sunday elected their first leftist president ever, they also voted for their country’s first Black vice-president. Francia Marquez, a Black single mother who worked as a maid before…
By Laia Mataix Gomez Bogota, Jun 14 (EFE).- As a young girl, Francia Marquez never heard anyone say she could aspire one day to be Colombia’s vice president. It was simply unimaginable for an Afro-Colombian woman from a conflict-ravaged region like the southwestern department of Cauca to pursue university studies, let alone be the No. …