Global Health Justice

Mexico

June 22, 2022

Election of activist presidential team to combat structural violence in Colombia

By GHJ Team

Colombia just elected Gustavo Petro as the country’s first leftist president and environmental activist Francia Márquez Mina as the country’s first Black vice president. They have promised social and environmental justice and peace. Their proposed platform includes universal health care, public education and banking, and rejecting proposals to expand fracking and mining in favor of…