Celeste Sánchez Romero

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.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sánchez and the second or maternal family name is Romero.

Celeste Sánchez Romero
Federal deputy for Durango
In office
1 September 2021 – 22 February 2022
Personal details
Born(1990-02-08)8 February 1990
Durango City, Durango State, Mexico
Died21 February 2022(2022-02-21) (aged 32)
Durango, Durango, Mexico
Political partyPT
OccupationDentist

Education and research

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]

Political career

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]

Personal life and death

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]

References
  1. "Perfil del legislador" [Legislator Profile]. Secretariat of the Interior, Legislative Information System. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  2. Chávez, Juan Carlos (4 July 2021). "Celeste Sánchez, destacada investigadora duranguense" [Celeste Sánchez, noted researcher from Durango]. Victoria de Durango (in Spanish).
  3. Zepeda, Aurora (22 August 2021). "Comisión de Prerrogativas reparte diputaciones plurinominales" [Prerogatives Commission doles out proportional representation seats]. Excélsior (in Spanish).
  4. "Fallece a los 32 años la diputada Celeste Sánchez Romero" [Deputy Celeste Sánchez Romero dies at 32]. Infobae. 21 February 2022. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  5. Reyes, Yvonne (21 February 2022). "Hallan sin vida a Celeste Sánchez, diputada federal del PT y odontóloga de 32 años" [Celeste Sánchez, 32-year-old PT federal deputy and dentist, found dead]. Reporte Índigo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  6. "Diputada Celeste Sánchez murió por broncoaspiración; descartan feminicidio" [Deputy Celeste Sánchez died due to bronchoaspiration; femicide ruled out]. Radio Fórmula (in Spanish). 22 February 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  7. "Diputada Celeste Sánchez dejó una nota antes de ser hallada sin vida, revela fiscal de Durango". Milenio (in Spanish). 22 February 2022. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  8. "Muere la diputada del PT Celeste Sánchez Romero" [PT deputy Celeste Sánchez Romero dies]. Azteca Noticias (in Spanish). 21 February 2022. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
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