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Alessandra Rojo de la Vega Piccolo is a Mexican activist, businesswoman, influencer and politician who in 2024 became the mayor of Delegación Cuauhtémoc in Mexico City after a contested election.[1]
Education
editRojo de la Vega obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Science from Universidad Iberoamericana, and a Law degree from the Universidad Jurídica del Sureste.[2]
Activism
editRojo de la Vega founded United Movement for Childhood (Movimiento Unido por la Infancia, MUI México) in 2014, a non-profit organization focused on helping protect and develop children and teenagers in Mexico. Among other projects, MUI México worked with children and teenagers in The Lost City of Tacubaya, a shantytown with a high crime rate in México City.[3] She was also President of "No es una somos todas AC" ("Is not one, is all of us"), an organization dedicated to fight against gender violence.[4] In 2022 she was interviewed by Carolina Rosario from ¡Despierta América!, where she talked about gender violence against women in Mexico.[5]
Political career
editRojo de la Vega started her career in politics as part of the social communications team in the State of Mexico and in 2012 for ex-president Enrique Peña Nieto. She was the director of Social Development in the Miguel Hidalgo borough, and a local deputy for the Partido Verde Ecologista in the Mexico City congress, from 2018 to 2021.[6]
Election for Mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City
editOn January 31 2024 Alito Moreno announced on X that Rojo de la Vega would be the candidate for the PRI-PAN-PRD Coalition for Mayor of Cuauhtemoc.[7] She won the election of 2 June 2024 by a difference between 11,000 to 12,000 votes, but the results were contested by Caty Monreal, the candidate from Morena.[8]
Personal life
editRojo de la Vega is the daughter of businessman Martin Rojo de la Vega and Monica Piccolo. Her siblings are fitness influencers Nunzia and Gabriel Rojo de la Vega. In February 2014 se married with architect Emmanuel Gray, with whom she had three children, Martinah, and twins Lucah and Milah. She divorced Gray in 2022.[9]
References
edit- ^ Guillén, Beatriz (2024-09-18). "El Tribunal Electoral federal confirma el triunfo de Alessandra Rojo de la Vega en la alcaldía Cuauhtémoc". El País México (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-04.
- ^ Merino, Fernando; Divany, Javier (12 May 2024). "¿Quién es Alessandra Rojo de la Vega?". El Sol de México (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2024-10-06. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
- ^ Velmore, Nadia (2020-09-24). "Reportaje con el Movimiento Unido por la Infancia (MUI)". Polifacetik (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2024-10-06. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
- ^ "¿Quién es Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, candidata a la Cuauhtémoc?". Milenio (in Mexican Spanish). 2024-12-05. Archived from the original on 2024-06-11. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
- ^ Rosario, Carolina (18 September 2022). ""No están solas": la historia de Alessandra Rojo de la Vega en su lucha por defender a las mujeres". Univision. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
- ^ Carrillo, Victoria (6 June 2024). "Perfil: ¿Quién es Alessandra Rojo de la Vega? Conoce la trayectoria de la activista y próxima alcaldesa de la Cuauhtémoc". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-12.
- ^ Arellano, Silvia (2024-01-31). "Alessandra-Rojo de-la Vega-será la candidata de oposición Cuauhtémoc". Grupo Milenio (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-12.
- ^ Breña, Carmen Morán (2024-07-20). "Telenovela en el corazón de la capital de México: tribunales, familias políticas y un ataque armado tienen en un limbo electoral a la principal alcaldía". El País México (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-13.
- ^ García, Miriam (2024-10-02). "Alessandra Rojo de la Vega ganó la batalla; la Cuauhtémoc estrena alcaldesa". Quién (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2024-10-06. Retrieved 2024-10-06.