In 2022 Gustavo Petro was elected as the first left wing president in Colombia. As his vice president, he chose Francia Elena Márquez Mina, an environmental activist and lawyer who won in 2018 the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work to stop illegal gold mining and for her community organizing. In 2022 she announced her candidacy to the presidency and received national and international support. In March 2022 she accepted Petro’s invitation to be his vice president for the 2022 elections. As a result, on August 7th, 2022, she became the second woman to be Colombian V.P. and the first black woman to be it. Francia Marquez represents a very important part of the left in Colombia and her presence in the government has not become unnoticed. The Media has criticized her for her race, but more important for the fact that before becoming a lawyer she worked as a house maid in the city of Cali. Her responses to criticism are always controversial because she does not respond to the stereotypes that whites in Colombia have about blacks, nor does she resemble the traditional ways of exercising power. The labels have allowed the traditional media and social networks to mark her as a talkative person (mouthy: respondona) and she has faced racist and classist attacks. For her part, the Vice President of Colombia has denounced her aggressors before the Prosecutor’s Office. She has been critical with the media and with social networks. And the reactions for and against are accompanied by self-censorship by some media. In this article we want to show the role that the media and social networks have played and, in doing so, we want to point out the intersectionality of racist attacks in Colombia, the role of the free press in the construction of democracy and the importance of an adequate accountability on the part of those who hold power, beyond stereotypes. In other words, we want to show the gender coloniality of power in Colombian political discourse and how it impacts the processes of transparency and democratic governance.