Video of Francia Márquez girl defending the rights of her people in Cauca revived

Since Francia Márquez Mina jumped into politics, her name has not stopped ringing and even more so after taking more than 783,000 votes in the consultations and having been officially formalized this week as vice-presidential formula of Gustavo Petro. However, his social struggle has been going back to his adolescence and this is how it was recorded in a video that has been circulating on social networks for a few days.

The images, which were disseminated by political personalities, such as Senator-elect Iván Cepeda, show the first appearance of the political leader of the Soy Porque Somos movement on television, while exposing the crisis faced by the La Salvajina reservoir and the Ovejas river, in the municipality of Suárez, located in the department of Cauca, of which Márquez is a native.

The lawyer, too, has consolidated herself as a political phenomenon in Colombia, since not only would she become the first Afro vice-president to hold that position, but she would lead social causes from the Government, the same ones with which she campaigned for the Historical Pact and which allowed her to win votes from old politicians such as Sergio Fajardo, Alejandro Char, among several others.

The reactions to that filming have not been long in coming. Several sectors of the country have highlighted the social and environmental struggle that the fellow Goldman Environmental Prize winner represents since her first years of life.

Now, Francia Márquez will compete with presidential candidate Gustavo Petro for the two most important positions in the Colombian Government and, with marked progressive ideas, will seek to end hunger, break the social gaps in the country and expose from the Executive the problems faced by Colombians.

In an interview with Infobae Colombia, the leader and activist of African descent, born in the village of Yolombó, gave details of what he would do in the Government and vehemently questioned those who continue to consider negritudes as a minority group.

Regarding her academic career, it is known that she began her professional preparation by graduating as an agricultural technician at the National Learning Service (SENA) and later became a lawyer at the University of Santiago de Cali. “I thought I didn't have to study, but I had to do it to have the tools with which I can now help my people,” he said.

In 2014, she led the Mobilization of Black Women for the Care of Life and Ancestral Territories, in order to denounce the negative effects that mining was having on her territory.

“Every day I receive messages from boys and girls telling me 'We are proud of you, thank you for standing up for us and for participating. ' I received the message from an 11-year-old girl from La Guajira, she told me that her mother is involved in politics but that this year she thought she wasn't going to get involved, but since she saw me she got back into politics, she also told me 'I know I can't vote, but I'm involved and I just want you to make sure there's not so much violence in our country; that children do not have to suffer and that we can go out into the streets calmly, without fear, '” he said.

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