The senator-elect for Tabasco Rosalinda López Hernández, sister of the former Secretary of the Interior Adán Augusto López and wife since 2013 of the governor of Chiapas, Rutilio Escandón, has died at the age of 56 during the early hours of Tuesday to Wednesday, as announced by her brother in her profile of the social network X, formerly Twitter. “I stay with her smile, her commitment and her generosity. Rest in peace!” wrote the former governor of Tabasco. The causes of her death have not been revealed.
López Hernández was a politician close to the circle of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, from her own home state and with whom she took her first steps in politics, first in the PRD and years later in Morena, the movement that the leader founded in 2011 and It was consolidated as a party in 2014. “We are sad because we have bad news, our sister, companion, Rosalinda López Hernández, sister of Adán Augusto López Hernández, passed away, may she rest in peace,” the president lamented in his daily press conference. The morning
“With deep pain I announce the death of my dear wife, Rosalinda López Hernández, I remain with her affection, love for Chiapas, Tabasco and Mexico,” Escandón stated, for his part. The president-elect since this Sunday’s elections, also a Morena member Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman to hold the position, has joined in the condolences: “I deeply regret the departure of Rosalinda López Hernández. Cheerful, hard-working companion with convictions. My solidarity and love to Adan Augusto, Rutilio and to each and every family member, friend and colleague. Goodbye, dear Rosalinda.”
López Hernández had been elected senator for Tabasco in this Sunday’s elections, her last step after an entire career in politics. It began its journey in 2000 with López Obrador in the then leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), today at risk of extinction after the worst results in its history in Sunday’s elections and on the verge of losing its national registration. . The woman from Tabasco was a senator and federal and local representative with the group.
In 2015, López Hernández changed his shirt to run for mayor of Centro, a municipality to which Villahermosa, capital of Tabasco, belongs, as the standard bearer of the right-wing National Action Party (PAN) and the Green Party. She lost against the PRD candidate, Gerardo Gaudiano Rovirosa. In 2018, when López Obrador won the presidential elections for Morena, the party she had founded after leaving the PRD, López Hernández joined the ranks of the new group, again under the leadership of the Tabasco native.
In the first years of the López Obrador Administration, López Hernández held the position of administrator of the Tax Administration System, a position she left to represent Morena in the Senate some time later. Born in October 1967 in the municipality of Cárdenas, Tabasco, López Hernández studied a bachelor’s degree in public accounting at the Juárez Autonomous University of the State between 1984 and 1989. She later completed a master’s degree in economic and financial accounting auditing at the Autonomous University of Madrid , on the Colmenar Viejo campus, on the outskirts of the Spanish capital, which ended in 1991. During the early 90s, before devoting himself to politics, he worked for the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex). She will be cremated in Villahermosa this afternoon.
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