<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leftist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colombia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colombian</a> Vice President Francia Márquez Mina demanded reparations from the United States over climate change, even as the U.S. sends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to the nation in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/foreign-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">economic and humanitarian aid</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In an <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-recast/2023/01/20/colombia-vice-president-francia-marquez-00078746" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> this week with POLITICO, Márquez said that the U.S. and other Western countries should pursue reparations in the form of debt forgiveness to Colombia over the issues of climate change and colonialism. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There’s no doubt that the United States has a role to play. The United States should be the first country to acknowledge that its global politics have helped keep black people around the world and in Africa in a state of subjugation,” Márquez said when asked if the U.S. should be involved in “global and climate reparations.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Countries that have participated in slavery and colonialism are the ones that have their black population living without the barest of necessities, in a state of precarity. Those countries most responsible for colonialism and slavery are today’s developed countries, the world superpowers, which paradoxically also emit the most greenhouse gases,” she added. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Márquez then claimed that black people, Indigenous people, and women were most impacted by climate change. She said that the U.S. and other countries should institute a debt forgiveness program to free up resources for “marginalized and oppressed communities.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The United States should be at the forefront of that policy. I know there’s been some reckoning, some conversations about acknowledging that this country is responsible for slavery and racism and now also climate change. But now it’s necessary to translate that reckoning into concrete action,” said Márquez, who is a member of the leftist Soy Porque Somos party. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. has routinely given <a href="https://www.foreignassistance.gov/cd/colombia/2022/disbursements/0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds of millions of dollars</a> to Colombia in aid. Since 2001, the U.S. has given Colombia over $11 billion in humanitarian, economic, and military aid. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In fiscal year 2022, the U.S. gave $479,676,863 to Colombia, with most of that money coming from USAID, but also a large chunk from the State Department. Included in this U.S. taxpayer funding was $198 million for emergency responses, $35 million for general environmental protection, and $23 million for disaster prevention and preparation. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Márquez, who ran for office alongside current Colombian President and <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/20/colombia-vp-marquez-00078617" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ex-guerrilla</a> rebel Gustavo Petro, has previously <a href="https://www.wola.org/analysis/colombia-peace-agreement-conclusions-of-the-first-session-of-the-permanent-forum-of-afro-descendants-at-the-un/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> reparations from Western countries at a forum in Geneva, Switzerland. </span></p>

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