Who is Andrea Chávez, Morena's youngest MP admired by AMLO: “There is generational change”

Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), president of Mexico, said during his most recent morning conference from the National Palace that he could retire peacefully from politics because there is already a generational change.

He specifically referred to the youngest deputy of the Fourth Transformation, member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Andrea Chávez.

“When I see my namesake Andrea arguing in the Chamber of Deputies, who is 24 years old, 25, it gives me great pleasure, it is already to say: I can retire quietly, I can retire peacefully, I can leave now because, like her, there are many others, there is generational change, that is the best that can be contributed,” said the Mexican.

Andrea Chávez is a deputy in the LXV Legislature, born in 1997 in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, where she has carried out most of her work and activism, which she holds in the proportional representation position she holds today.

Within the Chamber of Deputies, it belongs to the committees on Gender Equality, Justice and constitutional points. Although initially it was also annexed to the youth and citizen security commissions, it caused dismissal within a few months.

Although this is her first position as a public servant, Andrea has already had extensive experience in activism and public life, since she was 15 years old she has championed the struggle of women in her hometown.

The young deputy was born one women's day, on March 8, in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, studied law at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (UACJ) and from there she exercised her political life as a member of student committees.

Within her political career, she has participated in groups such as 4Q Feminists and Feminist Network for Transformation, as well as having been a parliamentary advisor to the Senate of the Republic.

He has also collaborated with the drafting of the section on femicide for Resolution 2250 of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, and was Mexico's representative at the UN Youth, Peace and Security forum in Amman Jordan.

Her resume indicates that she was selected by the organization Women2Women in 2017 to participate in its World Congress at Harvard University, in the state of Massachusetts.

Andrea comes from one of the municipalities in Mexico that has been most affected in recent decades by violence against women, so she included this problem in the speech she gave when she took office in the Chamber of Deputies with the following words:

“For those who are no longer there, for the maquila workers, for the mothers seeking, for the victims of the violence generated by the absurd war and for Ciudad Juárez. For my daughters, for my granddaughters. I protest as a federal deputy, but the position is theirs and I owe it to them,” said Andrea.

The deputy has spoken out on several occasions against Felipe Calderón and the PAN for the violence he experienced in his hometown, since a few days ago she gave the following message from the Chamber of Deputies following the participation of Margarita Zavala:

“I want to take advantage of the fact that today Felipe Calderón was in Ciudad Juárez, after 10 years of not visiting my city, a city hit by the drug war,” Andrea said and continued: “And the PAN, precisely the federal deputies of the PAN, intend to hide that a few hours ago, Iván Reyes Arzate , the former right-hand man of Genaro García Luna, better known as Felipe Calderón's anti-drug 'czar', has just confessed as a drug trafficker in the US,” the deputy condemned.

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