Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller (sometimes spelled Mueller; born 13 January 1969) is a Mexican writer, journalist, researcher, and the wife of the 65th president of Mexico,

Andrés Manuel López Obrador Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican former politician, political scientist, public administrator and writer who served as the 65th president of Mexico from 2018 to 2024. He se ...

Early life and education

Gutiérrez Müller was born in

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, the daughter of Juan Gutiérrez Canet and Nora Beatriz Müller Bentjerodt, a

German Chilean German Chileans (; ) are Chileans descended from German immigrants, about 30,000 of whom arrived in Chile between 1846 and 1914. Most of these were from traditionally Catholic Bavaria, Baden and the Rhineland, and also from Bohemia in the prese ...

. She graduated with a

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

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 () is a first-person narrative written in 1568 by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) t ...

'' (The art of the memory in the True History of the Conquest of New Spain). She received a doctorate in literary theory from the Unidad Iztapalapa of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

Career

After graduation, she worked as a correspondent from

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for '' El Universal''. She eventually joined the Mexico City government during

's period as

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. It is during this time that they met. Gutiérrez Müller is a professor and researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades "Alfonso Vélez Pliego" of the

Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla The Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla () (BUAP) is the oldest and largest university in Puebla, Mexico. Founded on 15 April 1578 as Colegio del Espíritu Santo, the school was sponsored by the Society of Jesus during most of the Spanis ...

. She has published several scholarly books on literary topics. She is also a singer.

Personal life

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 The first lady of Mexico () or first gentleman of Mexico () is the informal title held by the spouse of the president of Mexico, concurrent with the president's term of office. The position has no legal foundation and was originally started as a ...

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

References

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