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
Assumed role
1 December 2018
Children1
Residence National Palace of Mexico
Education Ibero-American University Puebla (BA, MA)
OccupationWriter, journalist, researcher

Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller (born 13 January 1969) is a Mexican writer, journalist, researcher, and the wife of the 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. [1] 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 is also a singer, [2] and has other written works, including La Tierra Prometida. [3]

Career

After graduation, she worked as a journalist for El Universal while she lived in Puebla.

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.

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". [4]

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References

  1. "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.
  2. "Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller". Spotify. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. Álvarez-Monsiváis, Edrei (27 December 2020). "Encuadres noticiosos sobre primeras damas: las expertas, las novatas y las actuales". Profesional de la Información (in Spanish). 29 (6). doi: 10.3145/epi.2020.nov.21 . ISSN   1699-2407.
  4. "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–present
Current holder