**Manuela Obrador Narváez Appointed State Delegate of Federal Welfare Secretariat in Chiapas**
On September 17, 2024, Carlos Gastón Torres Rosas, head of the Coordination General of Development Programs, announced that Manuela del Carmen Obrador Narváez, cousin of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will assume the role of state delegate in Chiapas. In this position, she will oversee the Nation’s Servers of the Federal Government.
Obrador Narváez served as a federal deputy representing MORENA in San Lázaro from September 1, 2018, until August 31, 2024. She was elected for two consecutive terms by District 1 of Chiapas through the “Together We Will Make History” coalition, which includes MORENA, the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), and the Labor Party (PT).
“A partir de hoy, nuestra compañera Manuela Obrador asume como delegada de los @apoyosbienestar en Chiapas. Su trabajo será indispensable para fortalecer la política social en este estado, que es donde más se ha reducido la pobreza. Le deseamos mucho éxito en este encargo,” Torres Rosas shared on social media X, along with a photo of himself and Obrador Narváez.
On November 24, 2023, President López Obrador stated that he did not support the candidacies of his brother José Ramiro López Obrador and his cousin Manuela Obrador Narváez for the Senate.
When asked by a journalist during a morning press conference in Oaxaca if he supported their Senate aspirations, the president responded, “No, yo no respaldo, a mi familia no! Y yo tengo el acuerdo con mis hijos, que es mi familia más cercana, con mi esposa, de que mientras yo esté en actividad, ninguno puede ocupar cargo.”
Days earlier, Manuela del Carmen Obrador Narváez accompanied Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, then-presidential candidate of the “Continue Making History” coalition, during an event in Palenque, Chiapas.
**Who is Manuela del Carmen Obrador Narváez?**
Born on June 12, 1971, in Palenque, Chiapas, Manuela del Carmen Obrador Narváez, 53, holds a degree in Economics. She is the daughter of Roberto Obrador González, brother to Manuela Obrador González, the mother of the current president of Mexico.
Her career includes various roles: from 1994 to 1995, she worked at the Electoral State Council of Chiapas in Tenejapa as a district computing officer and electoral trainer. From 2000 to 2003, she managed administrative affairs at the Trust Fund Program 95 of the Agrarian Attorney’s Office. Between 2004 and 2012, she was head of the Payment Office of Chiapas’s Public Education Department. From 2012 to 2014, she served as Director of Finance for the municipality of Palenque. Since 2014, she has been an active member of MORENA, holding positions such as national counselor, district liaison, and federal deputy candidate in the 2015 federal elections.
In 2018, she was elected as federal deputy by District 1 of Chiapas, securing 70.93% of the votes in the June 7, 2021 elections and returning to serve for a second term.
**Carlos Torres Rosas, Appointed Technical Secretary of Sheinbaum’s Expanded Cabinet**
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the anticipated President-elect, designated Carlos Gastón Torres Rosas as the Technical Secretary of the Presidency’s expanded cabinet on August 1, 2024. He previously served in this role under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Torres Rosas has overseen state and regional delegates and the Federal Government’s Nation’s Servers as head of the Coordination General of Development Programs.
“He will continue to serve the people, unifying different areas to keep progressing our nation’s societal programs,” Sheinbaum emphasized during a press conference at her transition headquarters in Iztapalapa.
“I appreciate the President-elect, Dr. @Claudiashein, for inviting me to be part of her team. Just as I’ve done these past six years with President @lopezobrador_, I will work tirelessly to solidify the transformation of Mexico,” Torres Rosas stated on X.
**Who is Carlos Torres Rosas?**
Carlos Gastón Torres Rosas, 37, from Durango, has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Bath, England, obtained on June 17, 2009. Before his public service career, he managed projects and product sales at Fairlife, LLC., owned by Coca-Cola.
Journalist Mario Maldonado Padilla reported that Torres Rosas, a close friend of Andrés Manuel López Beltrán (one of the President’s sons), joined the Federal Government on January 25, 2019, and was later named Technical Secretary for the Economic Growth Cabinet of the Presidential Office under Alfonso Romo Garza.
According to the Transparent Payroll platform, part of the Public Function Secretariat (SFP), Torres Rosas earned a gross monthly salary of 181,276 pesos, with an estimated net of 125,986.82 pesos.
On June 25, 2021, President López Obrador announced Torres Rosas would replace Gabriel García Hernández as head of the Coordination General of Development Programs.
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