Jesús María Tarriba and Claudia Sheinbaum after getting married this Friday, in a picture shared on social networks.
Claudia Sheinbaum married her college boyfriend Jesús María Tarriba this Friday. The presidential candidate of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) announced this on her social networks, where she explained that they got married in “an intimate and family ceremony”. Sheinbaum announced the engagement exactly a year ago in an interview on W Radio. He then left the date of the celebration open, and nothing further was known until the time he broke the news. “We are very happy,” says the message, which accompanied on X a photo with the couple dressed for the wedding, he in a suit and she in white, and on Instagram a picture with the wedding rings. The former head of government of Mexico City also shared portraits of her and her now husband signing their civil marriage certificates.
“I have news for you,” Sheinbaum posted on his social networks this Friday morning. The message was followed by a photo of the rings. Without further details. By midday the speculation came to an end. The former head of government confirmed the information on social networks. The candidate’s team told this newspaper that they made the decision to get married this week, just before the start of the campaign. And they did it in a small ceremony at noon, attended only by the couple’s family members. The politician has been in a six-year relationship with Tarriba, an economic risk analyst at the Bank of Mexico. They met at university and dated there for a year and three months. After that, their lives went their separate ways and it wasn’t until a long time before they met again.
Sheinbaum, who is already running for next year’s election, told host Martha Debayle’s radio show the details of his romantic relationship. On this occasion, the two women turned the conversation to the difficulties of a life as busy as that led by the then head of the capital’s executive branch. “I found love, I was very lucky,” he admitted at the time. For his part, he said in an interview on the program El Octagono of the La Octava network that the separation at the university worried him. “I neglected her, I lost her and then I regretted it,” he confessed.
Tarriba, 61 years old, has a doctorate in physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). At the end of his time at the university, the man left the country to try his luck in Spain, where he remained for many years. Before re-establishing a relationship with Sheinbaum, he married his first wife and pursued a professional career in the financial sector, first at Banamex, an institution where he worked as a quantitative analyst from 1994 to 1997, and then at Banco Santander for 16 years worked as an analyst and head of risk models.
The presidential candidate also had a first marriage. In 1987, she married the politician Carlos Imaz Gispert, who was a founding member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution at the end of the decade and held the position of head of delegation of Tlalpan between 2003 and 2004. During this phase, Imaz Gispert was confronted with serious corruption allegations, which forced him to resign from office five months after taking office and face trial. He was on the verge of going to prison but was eventually exonerated. The couple divorced almost 30 years after they began dating in 2016, when Sheinbaum was working as head of the Tlalpan delegation.
After this breakup, Sheinbaum found Jesús María Tarriba’s profile on Facebook, to whom he sent a friend request. According to his statements in interviews, this was the starting signal for the resumption of the relationship that they had had decades ago. They began to write to each other and then the physicist decided to visit them in Mexico. She later traveled to Spain to visit him, where Tarriba told her that he wanted to return to her. He did and they have been together ever since. When she announced the engagement, the contestant admitted that she was happy. “We don’t spend much time together because I’m always working, but we really enjoy the time we spend together.”
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