Gloria Rodríguez is the first Afro-descendant in the Senate of Uruguay. She calls for promoting racial and gender quotas.
“Women have to play Supermarías, while any Juancito arrives,” she says. The current photograph of Uruguay shows a country where the Afro.-descendant population (about 340,000 people, 10% of its inhabitants) maintains poverty rates (17%) that double those registered among the white population. The senator refutes the preachers of meritocracy with these and other data.