- Márquez made the statement in a recent interview with POLITICO.
- He said the United State and other Western nations should pursue reparations by way of debt forgiveness also over the issue of colonialism.
- “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 on whether the U.S. should be involved in “global and climate reparations.”