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Francia Márquez and the helicopter flight of Colombia's classism

2023-03-20T13:20:37.601Z


A political sector has launched a campaign on networks to criticize the vice president's use of a 'Black Hawk' from the Armed Forces to travel to Dapa, in Valle del Cauca, where her home is and her family resides.


Colombia is such an amazing country that its vice president has to explain herself for using a helicopter to guarantee her safety.

Understanding by hallucinating that which surprises or astonishes, even goes astray.

It turns out that despite the innumerable problems that the country has, a sector has launched a campaign to criticize the fact that Francia Márquez uses a Black Hawk from the Armed Forces to travel to Dapa, in Valle del Cauca, where his house is and his family resides. .

Debatable like everything else, the problem, as always in Colombia, is what these new attacks hide.

At the end of February, the more than conservative senator María Fernanda Cabal, from the Centro Democrático party of former president Álvaro Uribe, turned her anger on Twitter, pardon the redundancy, to criticize that a soldier had bled to death without being able to be rescued while the vice president used a helicopter to get home.

As usually happens, opponents of the current government fell en masse against Márquez, who they accused of abusing the privileges of office.

Almost a month later, there continues the controversy, to which all those who uphold good vibes have ended up joining and who, perhaps without realizing it, take advantage of these situations to unmask themselves.

If hunger and poverty hurt her so much, she wouldn't spend $8,600 an hour flying to go to the farm in a helitaxi, to do nothing.#DeMalas the poor and "nobody", because she says they deserve to waste the money that everyone We work for the position you hold.

— María Fernanda Cabal (@MariaFdaCabal) March 15, 2023

Beyond the barrage on networks, the facts.

From August to December, the vice president looked for a house to rent to her family after having two incidents in the apartment where she lived.

She found the house in Dapa, in Valle del Cauca, in an exclusive area, which has raised blisters.

The distance between Bogotá and Dapa makes it seem delirious that the vice president should go by road or by plane and then by road.

Not for convenience, of course it could be too.

In all the controversy, there are some small details that have been ignored.

Francia Márquez was the victim of a frustrated attack at the beginning of the year: they placed seven kilos of explosives on the road to her house.

Before becoming vice president, Márquez was a prominent environmental leader and activist who was threatened dozens of times.

She also ignored herself—explicitly,

because it is implicit in all the attacks— that Márquez is a woman, black and comes from humble origins.

She has had to make all this clear this week in an interview in which she was emphatic: "The times I go by helicopter, whether the Colombian elite like it or not, I am the vice president of Colombia and the The same 11 million who elected the president and for being a woman who is occupying the second most important position in this country, I deserve that the State as a whole take care of me so that I can ensure and be able to contribute with my work to the care of Colombians and the Colombians.

(…) I am not going to give myself the luxury of facilitating the conditions for them to kill me faster.

They can cry, scream, do whatever they want, they can sue me if they want."

black and comes from humble origins.

She has had to make all this clear this week in an interview in which she was emphatic: "The times I go by helicopter, whether the Colombian elite like it or not, I am the vice president of Colombia and the The same 11 million who elected the president and for being a woman who is occupying the second most important position in this country, I deserve that the State as a whole take care of me so that I can ensure and be able to contribute with my work to the care of Colombians and the Colombians.

(…) I am not going to give myself the luxury of facilitating the conditions for them to kill me faster.

They can cry, scream, do whatever they want, they can sue me if they want."

black and comes from humble origins.

She has had to make all this clear this week in an interview in which she was emphatic: "The times I go by helicopter, whether the Colombian elite like it or not, I am the vice president of Colombia and the The same 11 million who elected the president and for being a woman who is occupying the second most important position in this country, I deserve that the State as a whole take care of me so that I can ensure and be able to contribute with my work to the care of Colombians and the Colombians.

(…) I am not going to give myself the luxury of facilitating the conditions for them to kill me faster.

They can cry, scream, do whatever they want, they can sue me if they want."

She has had to make all this clear this week in an interview in which she was emphatic: "The times I go by helicopter, whether the Colombian elite like it or not, I am the vice president of Colombia and the The same 11 million who elected the president and for being a woman who is occupying the second most important position in this country, I deserve that the State as a whole take care of me so that I can ensure and be able to contribute with my work to the care of Colombians and the Colombians.

(…) I am not going to give myself the luxury of facilitating the conditions for them to kill me faster.

They can cry, scream, do whatever they want, they can sue me if they want."

She has had to make all this clear this week in an interview in which she was emphatic: "The times I go by helicopter, whether the Colombian elite like it or not, I am the vice president of Colombia and the The same 11 million who elected the president and for being a woman who is occupying the second most important position in this country, I deserve that the State as a whole take care of me so that I can ensure and be able to contribute with my work to the care of Colombians and the Colombians.

(…) I am not going to give myself the luxury of facilitating the conditions for them to kill me faster.

They can cry, scream, do whatever they want, they can sue me if they want."

I am the vice president of Colombia and I was elected by the same 11 million that elected the president and for being a woman who is occupying the second most important position in this country, I deserve that the State as a whole take care of me to ensure and to be able to contribute with my work to the care of Colombian men and women.

(…) I am not going to give myself the luxury of facilitating the conditions for them to kill me faster.

They can cry, scream, do whatever they want, they can sue me if they want."

I am the vice president of Colombia and I was elected by the same 11 million that elected the president and for being a woman who is occupying the second most important position in this country, I deserve that the State as a whole take care of me to ensure and to be able to contribute with my work to the care of Colombian men and women.

(…) I am not going to give myself the luxury of facilitating the conditions for them to kill me faster.

They can cry, scream, do whatever they want, they can sue me if they want."

#TotalPeace, which you oppose, seeks to stop the war so that no soldier or policeman has to die to take care of this country.



In relation to my safety: Do you want me to be unprotected so they can kill me?

They already tried it by placing explosives where it was going to pass.

https://t.co/5TxJpyFe3L

— Francia Márquez Mina (@FranciaMarquezM) February 21, 2023

They could well have shut more than one mouth after Márquez's forcefulness, but it turns out that in the absence of arguments, what is bothering now is that the vice president added that, "badly", she was the vice president and the "State has the responsibility to provide all security guarantees.

And, of course, how did Francia Márquez come up with saying that “badly”, that what is that way of speaking and responding to criticism, that one cannot be so arrogant, they began to protest more and more.

Those, of course, to whom what should make them angry is the classism of Colombia.

The one that, far from eradicating, they raise.

The words of the Vice President surprised those of us who recognized her humility and trajectory, based on work and not on pretensions.

I hope she rectifies by the example that she embodies, rather than by the digital bonfire.

— David Luna (@lunadavid) March 15, 2023


Source: elparis

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