Claudia Ruiz Massieu (born 10 July 1972) was a Mexican PRI politician who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 27 August 2015 to 4 January 2017 (succeeding Jose Antonio Meade and preceding Luis Videgaray Caso), Secretary-General of the PRI from 4 March 2017 to 16 July 2018 (succeeding Carolina Monroy del Mazo and preceding Ruben Moreira Valdez), and President of the PRI from 16 July 2018 (succeeding Moreira and preceding Rene Juarez Cisneros).
Biography[]
Claudia Ruiz Massieu was born in Mexico City, Mexico on 10 July 1972, the daughter of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu and the niece of Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Her father, the Secretary-General of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, was assassinated in 1994, and Claudia followed in his footsteps as a politician and served as a PRI deputy from 2003 to 2006 and from 2009 to 2012. She went on to serve as Secretary of Tourism from 2012 to 2015, Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2017, Secretary-General of the PRI from 2017 to 2018, and as President of the PRI from 2018. Ruiz Massieu was an influential politician, and her uncle groomed her to marry the up-and-coming PRI politician Conrado Higuera Sol; she helped to sabotage the corruption cases against him in order to protect her fiancee's prospects of serving in Enrique Pena Nieto's administration.