Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller

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Andrés Manuel López Obrador
(m. 2006)
Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller
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Gutiérrez Müller in 2019
First Lady of Mexico
In role
1 December 2018 – 30 September 2024
Children1
Residence National Palace of Mexico
Education Ibero-American University Puebla (BA, MA)
OccupationWriter, journalist, researcher

Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller (sometimes spelled Mueller; [1] born 13 January 1969) is a Mexican writer, journalist, researcher, and the wife of the 65th president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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Early life and education

Gutiérrez Müller was born in Mexico City, the daughter of Juan Gutiérrez Canet and Nora Beatriz Müller Bentjerodt, a German Chilean. [2] She graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications from the Ibero-American University Puebla in 1998, with her thesis Regulación del uso de los medios de comunicación en leyes electorales federales (Regulation of the use of the media in federal electoral laws). She also graduated with a master's degree from the same university in 2002 with her thesis El arte de la memoria en la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (The art of the memory in the True History of the Conquest of New Spain). She received a doctorate in literary theory from the Unidad Iztapalapa of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. [3]

Career

After graduation, she worked as a correspondent from Puebla for El Universal . [2]

She eventually joined the Mexico City government during Andrés Manuel López Obrador's period as Head of Government of Mexico City. It is during this time that they met.

Gutiérrez Müller is a professor and researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades "Alfonso Vélez Pliego" of the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla. She has published several scholarly books on literary topics. [3] She is also a singer. [4]

Personal life

On 16 October 2006, she married López Obrador and in April 2007, Jesús Ernesto López Gutiérrez was born (her firstborn, López Obrador's fourth). In spite of her being the wife of the incumbent President of Mexico, Gutiérrez Müller has rejected the title of First Lady of Mexico for being a "role with no concrete functions or responsibilities". [5]

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References

  1. "Gutiérrez Müller, Beatriz, 1969-". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Todo lo que hay que saber de la esposa de AMLO" [What we need to know about the wife of Andrés Manuel López Obrador]. animalpolitico.com (in Spanish). Animal Político. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Beatriz Gutiérrez Mueller". BUAP, Dirección Institucional de Igualdad de Género (DIIGE). Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  4. "Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller". Spotify. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  5. "La esposa de López Obrador suprime la figura de dama en México" [López Obrador's wife abolishes the First Lady role in Mexico]. eldiario.es (in Spanish). 4 August 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.

"Escritora, periodista y más, ella es la esposa de López Obrador". debate. Retrieved 2 July 2018.

Honorary titles
Preceded by First Lady of Mexico
2018–2024
Succeeded byas First Gentleman