Claudia Sheinbaum defends herself against the accusations of alleged plagiarism
Following accusations of alleged plagiarism in her undergraduate thesis, Claudia Sheinbaum is defending herself and has clarified some points through her social media.
Claudia Sheinbaum, the MORENA candidate and frontrunner in the polls, explained in detail the sources and the process she used to complete her work.
“It’s clear that the person who analyzed the thesis is not a physicist,” she said in the post and emphasized that her thesis is properly cited.
“The combustion of wood always involves heat, moisture, charcoal, ash, as well as carbon monoxide and dioxide, and therefore, there aren’t many different ways to describe its simple components. It would be like saying that if you describe water boiling at 100 degrees Celsius at sea level, you need a quoted reference to assert it, or it would be thought of as presenting an unoriginal idea as one’s own,” she specified.
Claudia Sheinbaum defends
But Claudia Sheinbaum defended herself further and recommended reading the entire thesis. She pointed out that as part of her career, she was a tenured researcher at the Institute of Engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
She obtained this position through a competitive process and was promoted based on evaluations by other academics. She also participated as a professor in the postgraduate program in Engineering.
Xóchitl Gálvez, responsible for the Broad Front for Mexico, has also been accused of plagiarism in her thesis work. In a speech, Claudia Sheinbaum took a jab at Gálvez by mentioning that she does not lie.
“Be assured, I carry our principles, I carry our causes in my heart; we don’t lie, we don’t plagiarize, we don’t steal, and we will never betray the people of Chiapas and the people of Mexico” she stated.
We recall that it all began when Senator Kenia López Rabadán of the PAN party requested the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to investigate Claudia Sheinbaum’s undergraduate thesis.
She estimated clear evidence that it was an identical copy of a document written in English and published in 1983, five years before Sheinbaum’s thesis was published in 1988.
In a message on X (formerly Twitter), López Rabadán argued that Claudia Sheinbaum had copied everything from her thesis to the speaking style of the president from Tabasco.
She claimed that Sheinbaum’s only original work was related to the collapse of Line 12, in which 27 people died.
