A 62-year-old woman has been convicted of discrimination and harassment on for making racist comments about Colombia’s first Black vice president during an antigovernment protest last year.
FILE - Colombian Vice President Francia Mrquez speaks as she visits a museum in Bogota, Colombia, Oct. 3, 2022. The Colombian Prosecutor's Office ruled out on Thursday, March 30, 2023, that Mrquez had been at risk of suffering an attack with explosives in January 2023, when the senior official denounced threats against her life.
The small business owner from Bogota went viral in September after she railed against Vice President Francia Márquez on a video published by a local news site. Rubiano was protesting in front of Colombia’s congress and responded to a question from a journalist by hurling insults against Márquez and Afro-Colombians.
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