Celeste Sánchez Romero | |
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Federal deputy for Durango | |
In office 1 September 2021 – 22 February 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Durango City, Durango State, Mexico | 8 February 1990
Died | 21 February 2022 Durango, Durango, Mexico | (aged 32)
Political party | PT |
Occupation | Dentist |
Celeste Sánchez Romero (8 February 1990 – 21 February 2022) was a Mexican dental researcher and federal deputy from the Labor Party (PT) in the first six months of the LXV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. Prior to becoming a legislator, she was an academic researcher.
Sánchez Romero graduated from the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango in 2013 with a degree in dentistry. [1] She obtained master's and doctorate degrees from the Piracicaba Dental Faculty of the State University of Campinas in Brazil. [1] She later became an adjunct faculty member of the Universidad de la República in Uruguay and had 47 scientific articles published in indexed publications. [1] In 2020, she was designated a Level I researcher in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. [2]
In 2021, she was elected to serve as a proportional representation federal deputy from the Labor Party out of the first electoral region (which includes Durango), taking the PT's only seat from that region. [3] She served as secretary on the Science, Technology and Innovation Commission and also sat on the Health and Youth commissions. [1] On the Health Commission, she was involved in debate over reforms to GMO labeling requirements. [4]
Sánchez Romero was found dead in her Durango home on 21 February 2022, at the age of 32. [5] An autopsy revealed pulmonary aspiration to be the cause of death. [6] That Friday, she had been in Durango to participate in a forum on proposed changes to laws governing the electricity sector. [4] The Durango Attorney General's Office later announced that her death was a suicide by overdose, citing as evidence a suicide note and a syringe that had been found with her body. [7]
She was replaced by her alternate, María de Jesús Paéz Guereca, in the Chamber of Deputies. [8]