Aida Quilcué

Aída Marina Quilcué Vivas (born in Páez , Cauca) is a Colombian politician, indigenous leader and social leader of the Nasa people. She belongs to the "Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca" (CRIC). She had been a UNESCO human rights and peace advisor. In 2022, she was elected to be the Senate of the "Republic by the Special Indigenous Constituency". Her party, the Alternative Indigenous and Social Movement (MAIS), was given assurance.

 Activism 
In the 1990s, she was a health promoter for the Cauca Indigenous Association (AIC).
In 2000, she was coordinator of the health program at the AIC and at the Regional Indigenous Council of Huila (CRIHU).

Between 2003 and 2009, she was appointed Senior Counselor of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC). She was one of the organizers of the 2008 Indigenous Minga. In the event, thousands of indigenous people marched to the city of Bogotá in protest. Her husband, Edwin Legarda, died on December 16 in a hospital in Popayán after receiving three rifle shots. Her husband was fired by soldiers on the highway connecting Inzá with Totoró, in the department of Cauca . During the trial and in the following years, Quilcué and her daughter have been victims of death threats and attacks.

 Awards and Honors  
In 2021, she was the winner of the National Award for the Defense of Human Rights in Colombia. It was in the category "Defense for a Whole Life".

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Category:Colombian politicians
Category:People from Cauca
Category:Living people
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)