Overview

• A TikTok video posted on August 13 showed Sandra Anaya Villegas jogging on the Great Wall of China, provoking backlash for contradicting party calls for humility.
• Following the uproar, she removed or privatized her travel posts and released a video denying she was in China.
• Anaya publicly apologized to President Claudia Sheinbaum and Morena leadership for harming the movement’s image.
• While there is no evidence of state funds used for her trip, the episode has reignited scrutiny of her alleged below-market land purchases near Lake Tequesquitengo under a Morelos corruption probe.
• Her controversy joins recent optics issues involving Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, Mario Delgado and Ricardo Monreal, whose foreign trips have also tested Morena’s promise of ‘justa medianía.’