Celeste Sánchez Romero (8 February 1990 – 21 February 2022) was a Mexican dental researcher and federal deputy from the Labor Party (PT) in the first six months of the LXV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. Prior to becoming a legislator, she was an academic researcher.
In 2021, she was elected to serve as a proportional representation federal deputy from the Labor Party out of the first electoral region (which includes Durango), taking the PT's only seat from that region.[3] She served as secretary on the Science, Technology and Innovation Commission and also sat on the Health and Youth commissions.[1] On the Health Commission, she was involved in debate over reforms to GMO labeling requirements.[4]
Personal life and death
Sánchez Romero was found dead in her Durango home on 21 February 2022, at the age of 32.[5] An autopsy revealed pulmonary aspiration to be the cause of death.[6] That Friday, she had been in Durango to participate in a forum on proposed changes to laws governing the electricity sector.[4] The Durango Attorney General's Office later announced that her death was a suicide by overdose, citing as evidence a suicide note and a syringe that had been found with her body.[7]