2023-06-24 03:04:00
the vice president France Marquez is the victim of continuous racist and classist attacks “disguised under alleged political disagreements,” according to the statement alleged by organizations, including the Washington Office for Latin America (WOLA), the Colombia Peace Agreement and dozens of people who They signed the letter individually.
“Los racist attacks They were evident during the 2022 presidential campaign,” the open letter states, stating that the vice president received 1,103 racist attacks during the electoral period, according to the Observatory of Racial Discrimination of the Universidad de los Andes.
They also echo the attacks received by the other two aspirants for the Afro vice presidency: the current Colombian ambassador to the United States, Luis Murillo (formula of Sergio Fajardo), who received five attacks. and Marelen Castillo (Rodolfo Hernández’s vice-presidential candidate), who received 15 attacks in elections.
Racism, an evil entrenched in broad sectors of Colombian society
In addition, the president suffers attacks by the press, which in a “derogatory, classist, racist and misogynistic way” reflect the level of intolerance that “the economic elites” have by not accepting the way in which Márquez became the vice president of the country Andean.
Beyond these attacks, which have led to harsh questioning of her duties as representative, such as the tour she made to several African countries a few weeks ago, the vice president has also received racist insults and threats from opponents, which she herself has denounced before the Prosecutor’s Office
For this reason, the signatory organizations assure that this is not an issue that is seen in a political sector, but that racism “is seen in a broad sector of society.”
“We make a broad call to open a discourse on this treatment and that this type of attack in Colombia be condemned, this type of action be corrected and that the responsible persons be punished,” the organizations said. The statement concludes that “Vice President Francia Márquez, like all Afro-descendants, deserve respect and be treated equally to all other leaders of other races and ethnicities.”
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