"I am because we are" A cry of struggle and peace
Just days before assuming the Vice Presidency of Colombia on August 7, joining Gustavo Petro on the ticket , Francia Márquez Mina embarked on a tour of South America, visiting Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia.
The first stop was in Brazil, on Tuesday, July 26, where he met with former president and presidential candidate in October, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , with Dilma Rousseff , with the former Minister of Women, Racial Equality and Human Rights, Nilma Gomes , and with representatives of the Landless Workers Movement and the Black Movement, among other social, political and cultural leaders.
In Santiago, Chile, he held a meeting on July 28 at the La Moneda Palace with President Gabriel Boric , in addition to participating in an event at the University of Chile with the former mayor of Santiago, Carolina Tohá.
During her visit to Argentina, she participated in several activities and was received by both President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
He also led, on Saturday the 30th, a meeting with the Afro-descendant community of Argentina at the Casa Patria Grande, in which the CLACSO Working Group “Civilizational crisis, reconfigurations of racism, Afro-Latin American social movements” participated.
In that context, she met with Karina Batthyány , Executive Director of CLACSO, who expressed the Council's willingness to collaborate with the process that is beginning in Colombia, ratifying what she had told her in a virtual dialogue held on July 8, which served to consolidate 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.
In the Argentine capital, Francia Márquez Mina also engaged in an open dialogue called “ I am because we are, a cry of struggle and peace ” at the Kirchner Cultural Center, where she shared the stage with, among others, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel , Verónica Gago, an intellectual linked to CLACSO, and María Elvira Solís, an artist from the Colombian Pacific coast.
His tour culminated on August 1 in La Paz, Bolivia, with a meeting with President Luis Arce and then with former President Evo Morales , in addition to participating in a ritual to Pachamama - Mother Earth - in the company of Vice President David Choquehuanca.
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