Xóchitl Gálvez
Mexican politician
Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz (Spanish: [ˈsotʃitl]; born 22 February 1963) is a Mexican politician and businesswoman. From 2015 until 2018, she was mayor of Mexico City's Miguel Hidalgo borough. From 2018 to 2023, she was a plurinominal senator in the Mexican Congress's LXIV and LXV Legislatures. As a senator, Gálvez caucused with the center-right National Action Party but frequently supported progressive politics on social issues such as abortion, drug policy, and social spending. She graduated from the UNAM School of Engineering with a degree in computer engineering. She received the nomination as the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition's nominee for the 2024 Mexican presidential election.
Early years
Gálvez was born on 22 February 1963 in Tepatepec, Hidalgo, to an Indigenous Otomi father and a mestiza mother, also of partial Otomi ancestry. She claims that, as a child, she sold desserts at the local market to support her education and family. She moved to Mexico City at 16 to study computer engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), first working as a call center agent and later earning a position as a research assistant at UNAM's College of Engineering. She obtained her degree in Computer Engineering in 2010, according to information from the National Registry of Professionals (Registro Nacional de Profesionistas).
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