Carmen Medel Palma (born 26 September 1960) is a Mexican doctor and politician, a member of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA). She served as a federal deputy in the LXIV Legislature of Congress from 2018 to 2021 and subsequently was elected the municipal president of Minatitlán, Veracruz.[1]
Career edit
Carmen Medel is a surgeon who graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana, an institution where she also previously studied technical nursing and later a diploma and a master's degree in general ultrasound.[2]
She has developed her professional activity in the city of Minatitlán, both privately and in public hospitals in the area. In 2016 she was kidnapped, from which she was released by the public force after thirteen days deprived of her freedom.[3]
In 2018, she was elected federal deputy to the LXIV Legislature representing District 14 of Veracruz.[4] In the LXIV Legislature, she served as secretary of the Health Commission and a member of the Livestock and Social Security Commissions.[5]
Assassination of Valeria Cruz Medel edit
On November 8, 2018, while attending the ordinary session of the Chamber of Deputies, she received a phone call informing her of the murder of her daughter Valeria Cruz Medel in Ciudad Mendoza, Veracruz; as a result, she suffered a nervous breakdown that forced the interruption and subsequent suspension of the Chamber's session.[6][7]
References edit
- ^ Zamudio, Isabel. "En 2016 secuestraron a diputada cuya hija fue asesinada en Veracruz". Milenio (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Suspenden sesión en San Lázaro tras conocerse asesinato de hija de diputada de Morena". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Suspenden sesión en San Lázaro tras conocerse asesinato de hija de diputada de Morena". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Perfil del legislador" (in Spanish). Sistema de Información Legislativa. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ Beauregard, Luis Pablo (2018-11-09). "La epidemia homicida en México toca San Lázaro en plena sesión del Congreso". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Suspenden sesión en San Lázaro tras conocerse asesinato de hija de diputada de Morena". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ Richards, Tony (2018-11-08). "Lower house adjourned after assassination of deputy's daughter". Mexico News Daily. Retrieved 5 May 2023.