Who is Úrsula Patricia Salazar, the alleged niece of AMLO accused of alleged acts of corruption

The National Regeneration Movement (Morena) is again in the eye of the hurricane and this time it was due to alleged acts of corruption by Úrsula Patricia Salazar Mojica, coordinator of the cherry party at the Tamaulipas Congress, after the leak of some audios on social networks.

However, the issue became more relevant because the local legislator came forward as the niece of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), so criticism has increased as the Mexican president came to the Presidency of the Republic with an austerity speech.

And it is that according to the recording that circulated, Salazar Mojica could supposedly be heard talking to a service provider of the Tamaulipan congress who asks him to “inflate” a bill so that the Morenista can collect the money in cash.

The audio also heard the response of the alleged provider who accepts that such a move be made, for the amount that the legislator wants, as long as both “benefit” from the transaction.

Given the controversy that was strongly questioned by some sectors of the public, doubts began to circulate about who the Morenista was and what her political career has been on the Mexican stage or, rather, in Tamaulipas.

Úrsula Patricia Salazar is the daughter of Úrsula Mojica Obrador, who, according to various sources, was the cousin of the head of the Federal Executive and who died on July 24, 2020 due to COVID-19.

However, her blood closeness between the president and the local legislator was “confirmed” by herself on July 1 when she recalled, through a Twitter message, the victory of López Obrador in the 2018 elections.

Based on the information she herself has mentioned in different interviews, Salazar Mojica ventured into politics during the 2006 presidential campaign when she joined the team of the then head of government of the Federal District.

However, it was until 2018 that she became Morena's elected delegate for the national elections and later for the Tamaulipas committee. Three years later, in the 2021 electoral process, she registered as a candidate for local deputy and managed to reach the position.

It was until, months later, on March 23, that she returned her name to the local press because she was appointed as coordinator of the cherry party in the state congress, replacing Deputy Armando Zuche Zuani, who also served as president of the Political Coordination Board (Jucopo) and lost his posts for internal problems.

Out of politics and Morena, until 2017 she worked as project manager at the College of Technical Professional Education (Conalep) in Tampico.

Meanwhile, in response to the broadcast of the audios, the newly appointed coordinator of Morena's parliamentary group in the Tamaulipas Congress assured that she does not know the audio leak, to have clean hands and that she is “part of the dirty war” against her.

In an interview at the exit of the Catholic parish of Santiago Apóstol, in the municipality of Altamira, Salazar Mojica stated that he has not asked for anything and that he knows his actions. “What I can tell you is that I have never been corrupt, a treacherous and I have never stolen,” she concluded.

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