Who is Marta Lucia Ramirez: The first female Colombian Vice President and Foreign Minister is on a visit to India for bilateral talks.
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The Vice-President and Foreign Minister Marta Lucia Ramirez arrived at New Delhi to hold a bilateral discussion and seal an important alliance to produce vaccines in Colombia.
According to the Ministry of External Affairs tweet, Ramirez is going to extensively cover all of the aspects of bilateral relations and special focus will be given to science and technology, vaccine development and biotechnology.
Both nations have signed alliances with pharmaceutical laboratories for Covid-19 vaccines and their use and space exploration.
The first woman vice president and defence minister of Colombia, here are few things to know about Ramirez:
Amidst the many firsts in her career as a politician, she is also the second woman, after Michelle Bachelet- served as the President of Chile, in Latin America - to hold the minister of national defence office.
Ramirez was the presidential candidate for the Conservative Party in the 2014 Presidential Elections.
In August 2018, she became the first woman Vice President in the history of Colombia.
As the Vice President, she focused on topics like transparency, corruption, gender equality, etc.
Ramirez worked her way up from a middle-class family to achieving her feats in Colombian politics.
Her name popped up in an investigation into Memo Fantasma (a cartel leader) after she teamed up with her husband for a construction project involving the same name.
On the citizens of Colombia protesting for a tax increase that targeted the middle class Ramirez in an interview with FOX16 said that there seems to be a lack of confidence between people and the state. In order to maintain the economic recovery, building back this confidence is important.
Ramirez filed a defamation case against journalist Jeremy McDermott for an article where the latter mentioned the connection between her husband, Alvaro Rincon and a suspected drug trafficker. On July 28, 2020, she dropped the suit.
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