Who was the Mexican dead in the accident of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 in Ethiopia

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) announced Sunday that among the 157 victims who died in the plane crash of the Ethiopian Airlines company, There was a woman of Mexican nationality.

She was Graziella by Louis Poncewho worked for the United Nations (A) as an official translator. Originally from Mérida, Yucatán, the woman spoke 11 languages fluently.

He was a member of one of the the most distinguished families of the region, she was the daughter of Graziella Ponce Rubio of Luis Gutiérrez and the granddaughter of Graziella Rubio Ibarra of Ponce and businessman Fernando Ponce García.

Her family is the founder of Bepensa Group, a multinational based in Merida which is dedicated to the representation and distribution of big brands like Coca Cola and Caribe Cooler. The company operates in five divisions, including Bepensa Industria, Bepensa Motriz and Financiera Bepensa.

The illustrious translator had two brothers, Javier and Isabel; she was the cousin of the families of Regil Ponce, Capetillo Ponce and Ponce Laviada. One of your cousins, José Ponce, wrote in Facebook the following:

"Graziella was a person of extraordinary talent, 100% dominated 11 different languages, which earned her a unique position as an UN official translator. Rest in peace, my cousin Gachita. "

The translator was speaking at a conference on the environment in Nairobi, Kenya, the day of the terrible accident, during which a plane of the company Ethiopian Airlines sHe crashed, causing the death of his 157 crew members.

The origins of Ponce family, in Yucatan, are in Izamal, birthplace of José María Ponce de León y Solís, son of Don Manuel Ponce de León y Marín and Mrs. Laureana Solís.

José María Ponce is recognized for having established the famous Cervecería Yucateca, founded at the beginning of the 20th century with foreign machines and with the help of a group of German Brewmaster. The company was in the hands of the Ponce family until June 1979, when it merged with Template group.

In 1946, Fernando Ponce G. Canton founded the group BEPENSA, which currently includes more than 40 companies grouped into 5 commercial divisions.

In 2014, the family was accused of having stripped their country of ejido from the island of Holbox, in Quintana Rooand having used members of the navy for the imprisonment of 16 peasants from the locality that had refused to be removed from their lands.