Francia Márquez

Francia Elena Márquez Mina (born 1 December 1981) is a Colombian politician who served as the 13th Vice President of Colombia from 2022 to 2026. She was born in Yolombó, Cauca, a village in the southwest of Colombia. 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.