Gabriela Cuevas Barron (born April 3, 1979) is a Mexican

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. She is the current President of the

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and a current senator for Mexico.

Personal life and education

Cuevas, at the age of 15, became interested in public service as a result of undertaking scholarly Catholic missionary work in and around Mexico. After getting, by her own free self, a keen eye for what she strongly felt as corruption in and out of rural and urban Mexican towns that she visited doing her school missionary work; Being just 15 years, she decided to start and continue to devote and focus her life on the merely social aspect of such a Catholic missionary work; this, by becoming active in Mexican politics as well as in, as she grew up, in several

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. Since being just a 15-year-old girl from the city, her inner focus and determination to serve others has propelled her to a career as a public servant of the highest standards and commitments, and in 2017, not just within the ins and outs of her country, but by managing to get the election and seal of approval of an unprecedented continental scale. Cuevas Barron majored in

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at the Autonomous Technical Institute of Mexico (ITAM). She is a

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to the wives of

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, and José Antonio Meade, the Institutional Revolutionary Party's 2018 presidential candidate for Mexico.

Political career

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Cuevas has been an active and politically involved person and PAN member since 1994. She has occupied different positions inside her political party including head of the PAN in Mexico city's

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area. From 2000 to 2003 she served as federal deputy during the LVIII Legislature; then from 2003 to 2006 she served in the

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representing the PAN. In April 2005, she and another PAN deputy, Jorge Lara, paid 2,000 MXN in order to prevent

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from being jailed as he would "become a martyr" had he gone to jail during his "'' desafuero''". In 2006 she was elected to serve as ''Jefe Delegacional'' of

. In 2009 she was elected as federal deputy at the

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. In 2012 she was elected as senator at the

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. On 18 October 2017, Cuevas Barron was elected as the President of the

, the first female from the Americas, after formally contending with

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politician, Ivonne Passada. In January 2018, Cuevas Barron left the National Action Party to join the

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(MORENA) citing that the objectives of inclusion, pluralism and development were not met. She will pose as an

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for the rest of her term as a senator, until the inauguration of the

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, where she will represent MORENA. The PAN claimed she left the party since she was not guaranteed a federal deputy spot through the

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process. Since 2022, Cuevas Barron has been a member of the Commission for Universal Health convened by

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and co-chaired by

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and

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Other activities

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, Fellow

Notes

External links

Gabriela Cuevas Barron public servant to Mexico official website

Personal blog of Gabriela Cuevas

References

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