Life takes many turns. Five words that people sometimes use as a wild card to fill an empty conversation or to avoid leaving an awkward silence, but that can sometimes become the best summary of a story.
Those five words could write the script of the life of Beatriz Gutiérrez Müllerbest known for being the wife of Andrés Manuel López Obradorpresident of Mexico. The political scientist and writer from Tepetitán came to power in 2018.
And just three months later, he carried out an event that almost completely broke diplomatic relations with Spain. AMLO, as he is known by his acronym, signed a letter in which he demanded that the king Philip VI that, on behalf of the entire country, ask forgiveness for the conquest and colonization of Mexico.
However, with the passage of time, it emerged unofficially that the weight of that affront fell more on the figure of Beatriz herself, the main instigator of sending the controversial letter, than on the former president. And now, six years later, his life has completely changed.
As stated ABCand as several media outlets from Latin America have confirmed, Beatriz and her son Jesus Ernestothe youngest of AMLO’s four descendants, have considered the possibility of moving to Spain. Specifically, near the city of Madrid. To the exclusive urbanization of The Moral.
The plans of the López Obrador
Andrés Manuel López Obrador ceased to be president of Mexico on September 30, 2024. Since then, his distance and that of his family from the direction of the country, now in the hands of Claudia Sheinbaumis increasingly notable.
These divisions have not only appeared in the López Obrador home on a political level, but also on a family level. A step that could definitively confirm this drift is the idea that has flown over Beatriz’s head, who is considering a dreamed ‘move’ to Spain.
A few months ago, Gutiérrez Müller decided apply for Spanish nationality. Relying on the Democratic Memory Law of the PSOE, this right would correspond to her because she is the granddaughter of Catalans on her mother’s side, and of Castilians, on her father’s side. A process that various Mexican media already take for granted.
This happened in May of this year, but a few weeks before, in March, the wife of the former president of Mexico applied for a residence permit to settle in Madrid. This leap could now be closer to happening than ever.
Everything indicates that Beatriz Gutiérrez will arrive in our country, and more specifically in the capital, to settle with her son Jesús Ernesto. One of the reasons for this ‘escape’ is that the young man has among his plans start your university studies in our country. Specifically, in the Complutense.
The 18-year-old boy has already spent part of his summer holidays in Cantabria to get his first taste of Spain before starting his new life. Together they will become part of one of the most select neighborhoods in the region, since they would have chosen the La Moraleja area.
In this way, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller would go in just over five years from deeply denying Spain and its history to becoming part of her community and allowing her son to be educated within its university educational system. It is a script twist typical of the best Hollywood films.
López Obrador’s wife decided to leave, in that way, in response to this information that placed her in our country, ensuring with a statement that she did not live in Spain. However, everything indicates that its future lies in this corner belonging to the municipality of Alcobendas.
Guitérrez Müller chooses La Moraleja
Although the López Obrador family, led by Andrés Manuel and Beatriz, defined the Spanish conquest of Hernán Cortés’ men as an act”tremendously violent, painful and transgressive”now they seem to have overcome that resentment towards Spain.
From alleging the supposed “illegality” of this historical event to being conquered by the charms of one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in our country. And La Moraleja has everything a high-class family could want: luxuries, comforts, exclusivity and isolation.
La Moraleja, which could be the new neighborhood of Beatriz and Jesús Ernesto in their settlement in Spain, is a luxurious residential development that belongs to the municipality of Alcobendas. This area has been known for providing shelter to the most illustrious faces on the national scene for many years.
International stars such as Ava Gardner or references of art and culture such as Tita Cervera, Lola Flores, Rocio Jurado or Isabel Pantoja. And more recently, actresses like Amaia Salamanca and Ana Obregón or footballers like Luka Modric about Marcelo.
It belongs to the northern area of the metropolitan area of Madrid and borders other exclusive corners of the region such as El Soto or El Encinar. And between all of them they form the most luxurious population center in all of Spain and one of the most important in Europe. It could be said that the ‘pseudo former first lady’, a position she never held when it was abolished in her country, does not have a bad eye.
They currently reside in this enclave near 11.500 personas -1,600 in La Moraleja, 7,500 in El Soto and 2,500 in El Encinar- and they make up, in addition to the point of greatest concentration of the Madrid nobility and socioeconomic elite, one of the urbanizations with the greatest rent per capita of the country.
According to data from the specialized portal photo house, The average price of homes in La Moraleja is currently close to 1,225,000 eurosand the square meter has an average price of around 6,500 euros.
However, the high level of the people who live there makes the most exclusive mansions and chalets currently for sale even exceed 18 million eurosas reported by the specialized portal Idealistic.
The most expensive house in La Moraleja.
These are homes that have between 6 and 9 rooms and that even exceed 2,500 square meters built with up to 13,000 square meters of plot. For this reason, all of them abound with amenities such as immense gardens, jacuzzis, saunas, private gyms, movie theaters or infinity pools.
Luxuries for anyone, but essential in these amazing mansions only available to a few. Next to this imperial urbanization there are two shopping centers that offer all types of services, from hospitality and restaurants to recreational areas, shops and cinemas. And furthermore, this exclusive corner of Madrid has up to 17 educational centersnone of them public.
The great variety of people who reside in La Moraleja, wealthy people from countless countries, makes many of these centers international. But if one aspect of this ‘neighborhood’ of Madrid stands out above other similar ones, it is its security.
The urbanization has traffic cameras to monitor the streets. There are three conservation entities in order to enhance the protection of an area that has your own 24-hour security service and a connected alarm system.
In addition, requests for restriction and closure of access to said urbanization have recently increased, since currently entry to the residential area is free to the public. And if the López Obradors are sports lovers, they will undoubtedly have plenty to choose from.
La Moraleja has five private sports clubs for tennis, rugby and football lovers. However, the star sports for residents in the area are golf and horse riding. Such is the independent character of the urbanization, which it tried to achieve in the 90s, that for just over a decade it has even had its own newspaper, The Tribune of La Moraleja.
Who is Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller?
The figure of López de Obrador’s wife has not attracted as much attention as that of her husband. Journalist and researcher by profession, came into the diplomat’s life five years before his marriage in 2006.
She was, between 2001 and 2002, director of Dissemination in the Government of Mexico City while AMLO was in charge as Head of Government. There they met and began a relationship. And due to his strong character and his preparation, he soon had great weight in the writer’s political decisions.
However, his closest episode was that letter that since 2019 has confronted Mexico and Spain head-on and of which he is considered the ’eminence grise’. In that letter our country was required to recognize “its historical responsibility for offenses, and political apologies and compensation” at the convenience of the Mexican country.
One of the main facts that they point out to him is that, after graduating in Communication Scienceshe took out the PhD in Ibero-American Letters with the thesis ‘Artificial memory in the true history of the conquest of New Spain’.
In this work he analyzed the fundamental text about the Spanish irruption in America and which was signed by the soldier Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Her thesis was presented as a book in February 2019, just a few months before that act that pitted Mexico against Spain under the command of her husband.
In that letter it was recognized that The military incursion of Hernán Cortés’ troops was the “founding event of the current Mexican nation”which was produced “through countless crimes and abuses.” An issue that has always been of great interest to Gutiérrez Müller due to the cultural clash between both peoples.
The tension generated between the two countries by this international public affront surpassed López Obrador’s mandate and continued with his successor, both in the party and in the country’s leadership. So much so that King Felipe VI was not invited to Claudia Sheinbaum’s investiture for not responding to said letter.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2-l) and his wife Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller (l) welcome the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau (2-d) and his wife Sophie Grégoire (d) in Mexico.
That duel in the sun that for many has Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller as its brain persists today, since Mexico continues to demand those apologies from Spain, a trend to which a certain sector of the national left has joined.
Since the first rumors of his change of scenery to Spain arose, back in May, López Obrador’s wife has tried to stop them with messages like “I live in our beautiful Mexico”.
Now, he has also come forward with information that places him, provisionally or permanently, soon in Spain. Although always talking about the present and not the near future. If confirmed, in Madrid he will be able to meet other leaders and former political leaders of Latin America.
And above all, stage a geographical distance from her husband, who will continue in their residence in Chiapas. But also with her successor in the presidency, with whom she seems to maintain a tense relationship due to some messages published by Beatriz herself.