Karina Batthyány with Francia Márquez Mina
On Friday, July 8, the Vice President-elect of Colombia, Francia Márquez Mina, held a remote meeting with the Uruguayan sociologist and Executive Director of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences Karina Batthyánywhich served to reaffirm CLACSO's ties with the Afro-Colombian and feminist social leader, one month before Gustavo Petro's government takes office on August 7.
The meeting consolidated the shared objective of advancing on a hopeful path towards peace, social justice, environmental justice and the consolidation of feminist struggles, in pursuit of the necessary transformation for Our America.
Midway through the meeting, the directors of CLACSO joined the dialogue. Pablo Vommaro, Nicholas Arata y Gustavo Lema.
Recognized for her defense of the territory where she originates, El Cauca, Márquez Mina visited the CLACSO headquarters in Buenos Aires in November 2021, and in an interview for CLACSO.tv she described the situation of her country, spoke of the uprooted and excluded from her land, of the Afro-descendants of the continent, of the environment and narrated her own life working as a teenager and pregnant in the mines.
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