Rocío Abreu

Abreu received a law degree from the Universidad Tecnológica de México and worked in the National Retirement Savings System Commission and the PGR. In 2003, she went into the private sector, working for three years at Megaproyectos del Sureste, S.A. de C.V.; she concurrently served as a councilor on the Campeche Human Rights Commission.[1]

She was first elected to office in 2006, when she won a three-year term on the city council of Ciudad del Carmen under the Party of the Democratic Revolution banner despite losing the mayoral election.[2] While in office, she filed a criminal complaint against mayor José Ignacio Seara Sierra for threats made against her in retribution for complaints about excessive spending by the mayor.[3] Three years later, after changing parties to the New Alliance Party, she was elected to the Campeche state legislature, where she was the second-ranking official in the legislature and president of the Constitutional Points and Government Commissions.[1] Once in the state legislature, she changed back to the PRI.[2]

In 2012, voters in Ciudad del Carmen and Campeche's second federal electoral district elected Abreu to the LXII Legislature; though this was initially under the PVEM banner, she switched back to the PRI in September 2012.[2] She presided over a special commission to investigate environmental damage caused by PEMEX operations.[1] Between 2016 and 2018, she was the delegate of the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) in the state of Campeche.[1]