Lizbeth Loy Gamboa Song (born 31 March 1981) is a Mexican politician and lawyer affiliated with the PRI. She served as a federal deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Quintana Roo from the third electoral region.

Life

Gamboa Song was born in Chetumal. Her mother, Lizbeth Loy Song Escalante, was a state judge in Quintana Roo. After earning her undergraduate degree from the

Universidad de las Américas Puebla Universidad de las Américas Puebla, commonly known as UDLAP ( en, University of the Americas), is a Mexican private university located in San Andrés Cholula, near Puebla. The university is known for its programs in Finance, Arts and Humaniti ...

and a master's from the

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and coeducational private university based in ...

, she entered public service in the Quintana Roo state government, first in its Mexico City office and then as the subsecretary of social development in the state Secretariat of Regional Planning and Development. In 2007, Gamboa Song began a four-year stint as the head of the Quintana Roo state

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. She then served briefly as the head of the Instituto Quintanarroense de la Mujer (Quintana Roo Women's Institute) before being elected as a proportional representation federal deputy in 2012. During her three years as a deputy, she served on six commissions, including Constitutional Points, Fight Against Human Trafficking, and Transparency and Anticorruption. In 2017, Gamboa Song and Song Escalante, as Corpulenta Operadora, S.A. de C.V. (which is publicly known as Song Comunicaciones), won concessions for two radio stations in Quintana Roo, XHPJMM-FM in

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and XHPMAH-FM in

Mahahual Mahahual () is a village on the Costa Maya in the municipality of Othon P. Blanco on the Caribbean Sea coast of the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Previously a fishing village, it is now a rapidly developing tourist center. The name of Mahahu ...

References

1981 births Living people Politicians from Quintana Roo People from Chetumal, Quintana Roo Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Quintana Roo Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians 21st-century Mexican women politicians Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni Universidad de las Américas Puebla alumni Deputies of the LXII Legislature of Mexico {{Mexico-deputy-InstitutionalRevolutionary-1980s-stub Mexican politicians of Chinese descent Mexican politicians of Asian descent