The vice president highlighted investments for $ 2.4 billion in the Pacific, spoke of her relationship with President Petro and responded to criticism.
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Vice President France Márquez said that In three years of management he has managed to channel $ 2.4 towards the Colombian Pacific. In an interview with news RCN explained that resources have financed projects in health, housing, agriculture and basic sanitation, with the aim of closing historical gaps in forgotten territories.
“Close the inequality gaps in these more forgotten territories is to fulfill the country,” said Márquez, who stressed that investments seek to transform the region structurally. His goal, he said, is “Carry dignity to the Pacific “.
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Among the works he mentioned a headquarters of the University of the Valley in Suárez (Cauca), the Plazoleta de la Paz in Miranda and the Chicao Park in Santander de Quilichao. He assured that More than 63,000 women have benefited from productive initiatives promoted from the vice presidency.
Márquez pointed out that his work with the Ministry of Equality, in suspense since the Constitutional Court asked in May 2024 to Congress to create it again, focused on implementing the institution and guaranteeing budgets for fourteen protected populations. “So far I could arrive. Now those who arrive have to run, ”he said during the interview.
On the appointment of Juan Carlos Florián, he said that he had no personal problems, but that he invised him to know him. President Gustavo Petro told him, in his words, “we have to name Juan Florián”and she initially did not consider to designate it because when she announced it she received “a world of aggressions.”
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In social networks videos that Florián recorded for adult audiences have been disclosed. He has recognized that he was a sex worker. In a Council of Ministers the Head of State claimed that “No one who is black” I was going to exclude Florián.
Márquez referred to Petro’s position. “We live in a racist society, and racism, left or right, you have to eradicate it”said the vice president, who admitted that some comments from the president caused him discomfort.
The Caucana insisted that she will remain in office until the end of her mandate. “Here I continue, being the same woman, with my heart well placed and With the determination to carry solutions To those who need it most, ”he concluded.
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