Mexico city.- María de las Heras, president to Demotecnia agency passed away 5:30 this afternoon in Mexico city after being under medical observation in the hospital for several days.

She made herself a name in the world of survey statistics, she predicted the Vicente Fox triumph in the year 2000 election in Mexico, that of Jose Luis Rogdriguez Zapatero in Spain, and she was the one who got the closest numbers to the last President election figures in Mexico.

Translated from Spanish by Carlos Cuadra