Francia Márquez

Francia Elena Márquez Mina is a Colombian politician who is the 13th and current Vice President of Colombia since 2022. She was born in Yolombó, a village in the Suárez municipality in Cauca Department. She first became an activist at 13, when construction of a dam threatened her community. On taking office, she became the first Afro-Colombian vice president in the country's history. She is also the second woman to hold the post, after Marta Lucía Ramírez.