"I am because we are" A cry of struggle and peace
Just days before assuming the role of Vice President of Colombia on August 7, as part of the ticket with Gustavo Petro, Francia Márquez Mina He embarked on a tour of the southern part of the American continent, visiting Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia.
The first stop was in Brazil, on Tuesday, July 26, where he met with the former president and presidential candidate in October. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with Dilma Rousseff, with the former Minister for Women, Racial Equality and Human Rights, Nilma Gomesand 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 the president Gabriel boricIn addition to participating in an event at the University of Chile with the former mayor of Santiago, Carolina Toha.
During her time in Argentina, she had several activities and was received by both the President Alberto Fernándezas by the 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, he 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 He also engaged in an open dialogue called “I am because we are, a cry of struggle and peace"at the Kirchner Cultural Centre, where he shared the stage, among others, with the human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate." Adolfo PÃ © rez Esquivel, with Verónica Gago, intellectual linked to CLACSO, and with the artist from the Colombian Pacific coast María Elvira Solís.
His tour culminated on August 1 in La Paz, Bolivia, with a meeting with the president Luis Arce and then with the former president Evo MoralesIn addition to participating in a ritual to Pachamama - Mother Earth - in the company of the vice president David Choquehuanca.
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