Tatiana Clouthier announces that she will be leaving the position of Secretary of Commerce in Mexico City on October 6, 2022. Daniel Augusto Sanchez Moreno
With a broken voice, between tears, Tatiana Clouthier, Mexico’s economy minister, announced her resignation at the morning conference at the National Palace. “I had to play in the big leagues and you have to know when to retire. I go to the club where I will follow the team with encouragement,” said Clouthier when announcing his departure from the Ministry of Economy to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“We respect her decision, we insist that she stay, but she is a woman with convictions,” the Mexican president said this morning. Clouthier (Sinaloa, 1964), also known as “Aunt Tatis”, a nickname that became popular on social media after leading President López’s victorious campaign in 2018.
However, the reasons for his departure are not entirely clear. “The only thing that comes out of my mouth and heart is thank you for teaching me to value differences as a space of respect, for allowing me to put my skills at the service of the country. This week I had to get up three times in the morning and I couldn’t take it anymore,” said Clouthier and then hugged the president, who did not return his gesture and only applauded his participation.
His resignation comes amid consultations between the governments of the United States and Mexico on the country’s energy policy after the minimum time required for talks under their trade agreement (TMEC) expired, rather than immediately seeking arbitration. Mexico, the United States and Canada decided to continue consultations to determine whether or not to establish a dispute resolution body in the TMEC energy case.
The Sinaloan politician, daughter of Mexico’s former presidential nominee for the right-wing National Action party in 1988, took over the economy ministry in January 2021 to address the country’s economic challenges, replacing Graciela Márquez Colín, the current president of Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). Her appointment as campaign manager for the 2018 presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a representative of the political left, surprised her family with a PAN tradition.
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