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 Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican politician who has been serving as the 65th president of Mexico since 1 December 2018. He previously served as Head of Government of Mexico ...

Personal life and education

Gutiérrez Müller was born in Mexico City, the daughter of Juan Gutiérrez Canet and Nora Beatriz Müller Bentjerodt, a

German Chilean German Chileans ( es, germanochilenos; german: Deutsch-Chilenen) are Chileans descended from German immigrants, about 30,000 of whom arrived in Chile between 1846 and 1914. Most of these were from Bavaria, Baden and the Rhineland, and also from ...

. She graduated with a

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

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 ''Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España'' (''The True History of the Conquest of New Spain'') is a first-person narrative written in 1568 by military adventurer, ''conquistador'', and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo ...

'' (The art of the memory in the True History of the Conquest of New Spain). On top of this, she's also a singer, and has other written works, including ''La Tierra Prometida.'' After graduation, she worked as a journalist for '' El Universal'' while she lived in

Puebla Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...

. She eventually joined the Mexico City government during

's period as

Head of Government of Mexico City The Head of Government ( es, Jefe de Gobierno) wields the executive power in Mexico City. The Head of Government serves a six-year term, running concurrently with that of the President of the Republic. Mexico City, or CDMX, is the seat of natio ...

. It is during this time that they met. 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 First Lady of Mexico ( es, Primera Dama de México), also known as First Lady of the United Mexican States ( es, Primera Dama de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the unofficial title of the wife of the president of Mexico. Beatriz Gutiérrez Mül ...

for being a "role with no concrete functions or responsibilities".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gutiérrez Müller, Beatriz 1969 births Living people First Ladies of Mexico Mexican people of Chilean descent Mexican people of German descent People from Mexico City Universidad Iberoamericana alumni