MEXICO CITY: Tributes have poured in for Mexico´s pioneering democracy and women´s rights advocate Ifigenia Martinez, who died aged 94 just days after overseeing the inauguration of the country´s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
“On October 1, I received the presidential sash from her hands. Today she left us. I send all my love and solidarity to her family, colleagues and friends.
Farewell, dear Ifigenia,” Sheinbaum wrote on social media late Saturday.
The National Autonomous University of Mexico hailed Martinez as a distinguished economist and a “tireless fighter for freedoms and democracy.”
A visibly frail Martinez, president of the lower house of Congress, had transferred the presidential sash to Sheinbaum from outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at her swearing in ceremony on Tuesday.
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