Profile of Adam Augustus
Position: Government Secretary
Age: 59 years
Family: His father is Payambé López Falconi, a lawyer and notary public, who supported López Obrador since he was in the PRI Tabasco. He died on December 6, 2020. His mother is Aura Hernández Sánchez, a teacher who died on November 22.
His sister Rosalinda is the general administrator of the Federal Fiscal Audit of the Tax Administration System and is married to the governor of Chiapas, Rutilio Escandón. Another of her sisters, Silvia, is the wife of Humberto Mayans Canabal, who was Secretary of the Government of Tabasco from 2007 to 2011.
Marital status: Married to Dea Isabel Estrada Rodríguez.
Sons: He has three children: Adán Payambé, Augusto Andrés López Estrada and Adrián Jesús López Estrada.
Is he a cousin of AMLO?
No. Although both President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Adán Augusto have the first surname in common, they are not relatives, although they are countrymen because they were both born in Tabasco.
Curriculum of Adam Augusto Lopez
He has a law degree from the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, and studied comparative law at the Institute of Comparative Law in Paris. He also has a master’s degree in Political Science from the New Sorbonne University-Paris 3 and a diploma in Notarial Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
What have you done during your career?
Adán Augusto López’s political career began in the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 2000 as campaign coordinator for Manuel Andrade Díaz, who that year ran for governor of Tabasco.
Three years later, Adán Augusto López Hernández joined the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and with the nomination of this political force he won the local deputation in the 58 Legislature of Tabasco for the IV electoral district, from 2006 to 2009. Later, he managed a federal deputation for the IV district of that same state in the 61st legislature that worked from 2010 to 2012.
In 2006, when the PRD nominated Andrés Manuel López Obrador as its presidential candidate, López Hernández became the regional coordinator of the campaign in Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz and Yucatán.
