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Ana Guevara

Mexican athlete and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ237002 ↗
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Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza (born March 4, 1977) is a Mexican politician and former track and field athlete. She specialized in the 400 meters and is the 7th fastest female 300-meter runner in the world, running 300 meters in 35.3 seconds on May 3, 2003. She served as a Mexican Senator for the 2012–2018 term. She later served as the president of CONADE during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador between 2018 and 2024.

Early life

Guevara was born in Nogales, Sonora. Her parents are Cesar Octavio Guevara and Ana María Espinoza. She has four siblings: Azalia, César, Daniela, and Jaime.

Athletic career

Ana's career began in 1996 when she started participating in her first international competition. In 1998, she won two silver medals in the Central American and Caribbean Games in the 400 and 800 meters.

Her first major victory was the gold medal in the 400 meters at the 1999 Pan American Games in Canada.

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“Ana Guevara” enters the record as mexican athlete and politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Guevara, Mexican and athlete can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 2003, 2012, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-03-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Guevara, Mexican and athlete.
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“Ana Guevara” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Guevara, Mexican and athlete provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q237002. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977, 2003, 2012 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ana Guevara” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.