Tag: Francia Márquez

• Monday, August 19th 2024 - 10:51 UTC

  Colombia: Duchess of Sussex speaks in Spanish with Argentine accent

  

  Prince Harry's wife Meghan Markle spoke in Spanish this weekend during an event of Afro-descendant women in Cali alongside Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez. Although she completed her speech in English, he said a few words in the language she had learned while working at the US Embassy in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, July 11th 2024 - 19:46 UTC

  Colombian VP's car shot at; she was elsewhere

  

  The car Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez usually rides was shot at Wednesday although the apparent target of the onslaught was not aboard at the time of the attack, it was reported from her native southwestern city of Suárez.

• Wednesday, January 11th 2023 - 03:50 UTC

  Bomb seeking to kill Colombian VP defused

  

  Colombian Vice-president Francia Márquez Tuesday said a plan to kill her had been defused by members of her security team after an explosive device was found and subsequently deactivated.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2022 - 21:19 UTC

  Future Colombian VP meets with Lula in Brazil

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) welcomed Colombia's Vice President-elect Francia Márquez, who is on a South American tour before taking office on Aug.7.

• Monday, June 20th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Third-time lucky Petro to lead Colombia's turn to the left

  

  Colombia elected a leftist government this Sunday for the first time after the second round of elections. Gustavo Petro, candidate of the Historical Pact coalition, will be the country's next president after a ballotage with good participation figures where he imposed over the right-wing populist Rodolfo Hernandez, who was a candidate of the League of Anti-Corruption Rulers.