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Raquel Cortés López

Mexican politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ19662479 ↗
Source-derived summary

Raquel Cortés López (born 17 July 1957) is a Mexican politician from the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).

In the 2000 general election she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies

to represent the State of Mexico's 30th district during the

58th session of Congress.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Raquel Cortés López” as mexican politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-07-17. The account is most persuasive where Raquel, Cortés and López can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as mexican politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19662479. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957 and 2000.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Raquel Cortés López”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Raquel Cortés López primary sources, Raquel Cortés López archive and Raquel research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Raquel Cortés López”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Raquel Cortés López” 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.