Senator Julieta Ramírez Padilla, a member of the Morena party, denied that the United States government had taken her life, as reported in the press in recent days.
During a meeting with residents of the Lomas de San Martín neighborhood in Tijuana, the legislator claimed she was the target of a smear campaign.
Ramírez Padilla, one of her party’s strongest candidates for the 2027 gubernatorial elections, said ironically that the rumors were the start of vulture season: “Birds of ill omen often gather to lie and slander… what is true is that vulture season has begun,” she remarked.
A clip from a live broadcast of the meeting between the legislator and the residents, recorded by journalist Ángel Peña, has been widely circulated on X—formerly Twitter. While addressing the speculation, Peña raises his voice to issue a challenge: “Let’s go to Disney tomorrow. Let’s see if you really have a visa.”
Initially, Julieta Ramírez interpreted the comment as a joke; however, faced with the man’s persistence, she chose to ignore it while bystanders confronted him.
This incident occurred months after key political figures in the state had their visas revoked. In May 2025, Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda confirmed the revocation of her permit. A week earlier, the same situation occurred with her then-husband, Carlos Torres Torres.
Who is Julieta Ramírez Padilla?
Julieta Ramírez Padilla is a politician originally from Mexicali, Baja California, whose career has been consolidated within Morena through technical, legislative, and political coordination positions. Her career began in 2014 at the Secretariat of Social Development for the municipality of Mexicali, where she became involved in local public management projects.
In 2018, she was the Strategic Projects Coordinator for the Mexicali municipal government and actively participated in the Mujeres Morena (Morena Women) group. A year later, in 2019, she served as an advisor in the Chamber of Deputies and as coordinator of the youth campaign for Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, for whom she later worked as private secretary.
Her move to the federal legislative arena occurred in 2021, when she was elected federal deputy for District 2 of Baja California, a position she held in the LXV Legislature representing Morena. During that period, she served as secretary of the Human Rights and Radio and Television Committees, in addition to participating in other parliamentary working committees.
In 2022, she was ratified as an alternate councilor for the Legislative Branch before the National Electoral Institute (INE) and subsequently assumed the position of full councilor, strengthening her expertise in electoral and institutional matters. In 2024, Julieta Ramírez Padilla was elected senator for Baja California, solidifying her presence in the Congress of the Union.
In the academic field, she holds a law degree and a master’s degree in public administration from the Autonomous University of Baja California. She also pursued studies in international law and politics at the Complutense University of Madrid and in political science and public administration at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She currently resides in Mexico City.
Source: infobae
