Visuality, Race, Dispute, and Power: Francia Márquez in the First Televised Council of Ministers

“Visuality, Race, Dispute, and Power: Francia Márquez in the First Televised Council of Ministers,” offers a critical visual analysis of Vice President Francia Márquez’s presence during the first nationally broadcast Council of Ministers. Using a critical visual methodology, the chapter explores how Márquez’s mediated visibility—shaped by her racial and social identity—functions as a site of symbolic struggle, where power, representation, and racialization intersect. The study highlights both the symbolic breakthroughs of her presence and the tensions embedded in the visual regimes that structure contemporary Colombian politics.