France Márquez Breaks the Silence on Discrimination in Petro’s Government: “to Exercise Dignity Is Not to Conspire”
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Francia Márquez broke the silence. After El PAÍS published audios in which ex-canciller Álvaro Leyva mentions her as an ally in an alleged plan to take Gustavo Petro out of power, the vice president published two communiqués in early July denying outright being in such a plot, but she refused interviews for almost a month. Nor did she say anything when the president, in a recently televised Council of Ministers, accused her of not hiring an acti…
The Colombian vice president, France Márquez, spoke on Friday about the breakdown within the government she is part of, after in recent weeks she felt questioned about her loyalty to President Gustavo Petro amid denunciations of an alleged plan to take him out of power.
France Márquez breaks the silence: he denounces discrimination within Petro’s government, claims that he went from being “heroine” to “traitor”.
The representative to the Lina María Garrido Chamber, of the Radical Change party, expressed her solidarity with Vice President Francia Márquez, following the denunciations of political marginalization that she made during the commemoration of the International Day of Women of African Descent in Cali. “France Márquez is not leftist or right-wing; France Márquez was used and then discarded,” Garrido said in a video published on social network X. …
The vice president spoke out against the rhetoric that seeks to delegitimize her political image and warned about the risks of a racist narrative that normalizes violence. Coastal Nation | July 25, 2025 During a forceful and indignant speech, Vice President Francia Márquez denounced the existence of political and media narratives that seek her symbolic and physical elimination from the Colombian political scene. The president made an urgent call…
Since the Council of Ministers of February 4, the relationship between the president and his vice president was not the same again.
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