Lenia Batres

Lenia Batres Guadarrama
Batres in 2025
Born (1969-08-06) 6 August 1969
Mexico City, Mexico
EducationUrban studies, public administration and law
Alma materUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1990-1994)
OccupationsLawyer and politician
PredecessorArturo Zaldívar
Political partyMovimiento Regeneración Nacional (since 2014)
Partido de la Revolución Democrática (1989-2014)
RelativesMartí Batres[1]

Lenia Batres Guadarrama (born 6 August 1969) is a Mexican lawyer and politician. She is a member of the Morena party and, since 14 December 2023, has been a minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.[2][3]

Political trajectory

He was a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico, the Revolutionary Democratic Party, and social organizations such as the Union of Neighbors of the Doctors Colony, the National Union of Youth, and the University Student Council. He actively participated in the peaceful civil resistance movement led by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2006-2018), coordinating brigades against the oil reform promoted by Felipe Calderón in 2008,[4] contributing to the formation of MORENA in Tultitlán, State of Mexico (2010-2011), and Nuevo León (2012-2013), and serving on its first National Council and first Executive Committee for the City of Mexico (2013-2016).[5]

References

  1. ^ "Sister of Mexico City mayor now Supreme Court justice". The NRI Nation. 2023-12-18. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  2. ^ "López Obrador appoints new Supreme Court justice Lenia Batres". Mexico News Daily. 2023-12-16. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  3. ^ Zerega, Georgina (2023-12-14). "López Obrador elige a Lenia Batres como nueva ministra de la Suprema Corte". El País México (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  4. ^ "Brigadistas distribuirán miles de dvd para explicar las causas de la resistencia civil", La Jornada, 17 de abril de 2008. Recuperado de: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2008/04/17/index.php?section=politica&article=012n1pol
  5. ^ Balderas, Óscar, "Lenia Batres renuncia al PRD para unirse al proyecto de AMLO", ADN Político, 11 de septiembre de 2012, Recuperado de: http://www.adnpolitico.com/2012/2012/09/11/el-prd-pierde-a-su-primer-miembro-fundador-ante-morena Archived 2012-11-16 at the Wayback Machine