Unveiling Xóchitl Gálvez: The Controversial Political Figure and Her Family’s Business Links

2024-04-05 06:05:00

In the last few hours there has been controversy over the spread on networks of a video of Xóchitl Gálvez’s son. Juan Pablo Sánchez Gálvez was caught uttering classist insults against employees of a club; He was forced to resign from the position his mother assigned him in the campaign. Some, like President López Obrador or candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, believe that politicians’ families should not be involved in elections; On the contrary, Xóchitl states that every family member, even those who do not hold public or political positions (like Sánchez Gálvez), is a person of public interest. This is how he responded, for example, to the criticism he received for his trip to Houston to “exhibit” a property rented by Carolyn Adams, wife of José Ramón López Beltrán. And her campaign has been based on accusing the President’s children of corruption that she has not proven.

Gálvez opens up his personal, political and business life a lot; There are three biographical or autobiographical books circulating right now and there are countless interviews in which he talks about herself. However, she hasn’t told everything. There are opaque areas and almost anyone who tries to put together the puzzle of her life will find pieces that do not match or, outright, some are missing. It wouldn’t matter if she were anyone, but this is someone who wants to direct the destinies of the Republic.

This investigation began – as always happens – with a minor doubt: in her recent property purchase/sale transactions, she sometimes presents herself with a marital status of “married” and other times as “single.” As she delved deeper into open data and publicly accessible documents, the inconsistencies that are raised here in this report began to accumulate. The journalist in charge and her editor agreed to ask Xóchitl Gálvez to address the doubts. His decision was not to answer them, at least not until the closing of this edition.

Yesterday, regarding the son’s “video-episode”, former Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda said that “Xóchitl was recommended to put herself in the hands of a specialized group of lawyers and experts so that she and her entire family could be put on the scale.” family and discover their weak flanks, anticipating this type of low blows. As far as I was left, the suggestions were not heeded.” Based on what has been found, with fewer resources, perhaps Castañeda is right.

Xóchitl Gálvez is the presidential candidate, at one of her campaign events. Photo: Xóchitl Gálvez Press.

Mexico City, April 5 (However).- In the documents of the Public Property Registry on the sale and purchase movements of properties of Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruizthe presidential candidate of the right, there is an inconsistency regarding her marital status, a detail that is part of a chain of irregularities.

On January 18, 2002, Xóchitl Gálvez purchased an apartment located in Monte Kamerún, located in the Lomas de Chapultepec in Mexico City. In her information as a buyer she indicated that she was “married and public servant”. For 2021, the Preventive Notice was issued that indicated the beginning of the acquisition of the Sierra Santa Rosa house — later known as “the red house” — and for May 21, 2021, the date on which the acquisition is completed, she reported to be single”. Even that information appears again in the mortgage document.

Currently, the partner of the PRI, PAN and PRD candidate is Rubén Sánchez, with whom he also shares one of his two companies: Operation and Maintenance of Intelligent Buildings (OMEI). According to information that she herself has shared, they live in a “coexistence society,” which is a legal mechanism that recognizes the union of couples who decide not to marry.

But official documents give more details. Xóchitl Gálvez married Luis Ernesto Vega Chacón, 33 years old, on August 8, 1987. She was 24. In the biographyXóchitl, from selling gelatin to seeking the presidency of Mexicowritten by Scarlett Lindero, it is noted that at that age she “began to share her life with a man” and that that man was Rubén Sánchez.

Union of Gálvez Ruiz and Vega Chacón. Photo: SinEmbargo

In another biography, Xingona, a Mexican against authoritarianism, by Ivonne Melgar —published after Lindero’s book—, says that in 1987 she met her daughter’s father and there was pressure from her family for her to get married: “I know my daughter’s father, I marry him and well “He leaves when I am six months pregnant and I am left alone.” Afterwards she relates that, years later, the man tried to approach both of her but that for her “he does not exist” and she believes “that for Diana he exists little.”

However, the story hides inconsistencies. Diana Vega Gálvez was born on January 23, 1988, she was registered on March 15 of that year by her two parents: Vega Chacón and Gálvez Ruiz. Both signed the document in the Civil Registry of Tepatepec, Hidalgo.

Diana Vega Gálvez. Photo: SinEmbargo

But that record is not the only one. In a Civil Registry of the then Federal District, 100 days later, she was registered Diana Llamas Gálvez, born on January 23, 1988. She was registered by her parents Francisco Llamas de la Fuente and Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz; He is 29 years old and she is 25.

Diana Llamas Gálvez. Photo: Sinembargo

Each Diana registry issued its respective Unique Population Registry Code (CURP) and according to the documents held by Howeverfor April 2024, none of the public registries, that of Hidalgo and Mexico City, has evidence of cancellation but rather both are valid and consequently, Gálvez’s daughter, during this time, has been able to use either of the two.

In addition to that, there is information that contradicts the data that Xóchitl provided in the story with her ex-partners. Of her husband Luis Ernesto Vega Chacón, whom she said left while she was pregnant, there are press records of him giving statements in 2002 as Director of Operations at the National Indigenous Institute (INI), of which Gálvez was director in the Government of Vicente Fox. On May 21, 2003, the organization would become the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples.

In Ivonne Melgar’s biography about Xóchitl, she tells of the episode in which Fox worked to convince her to join his team and that she had to talk about it with her partner, Rubén Sánchez, since he was even an eyewitness.

And that’s where Francisco Llamas de la Fuente also comes in, who registered Diana for the second time. According to the Registry of Public Servants, he began working in 2002 as “Coordinator of the Presidency of the Republic”; A year later he was named “Deputy CEO,” both positions during Fox’s presidency.

In September he began to work with Xóchitl at the INI, as coordinator. He stayed there until 2007, five months longer than her.

But it was not the only shared work space, since according to the Public Registry of Commerce, of the Ministry of Economy, llamas de la Fuente appears as founder and shareholder of High Tech Services SA de CV, the other company in Xóchitl. The incorporation of the company was on November 26, 2012.

Years later, Diana would become the legal representative of said company.

Image of the charter of High Tech Services. Photo: SE

THE CHILDREN TO THE COMPANIES AND THE CAMPAIGN

On December 5, 2023, Xóchitl Gálvez presented his main campaign team, which included his two children: Diana Vega Gálvez and Juan Carlos Sánchez Gálvez.

“Today I present this great team of experienced Mexicans who have a clear mission, to run a winning campaign to bring our message to Mexico, we will make Mexico a country with a strong middle class, a Xingona middle class,” he said.

He announced that Diana would be in charge of coordinating the “Xochilovers,” as she calls those who support her. Juan Pablo was the youth coordinator, a position from which he resigned on April 3.

These appointments generated criticism and Gálvez defended them by ensuring that they would not have a salary, that they would not be in the government if she won, since “they work, they have business activities.”

Xóchitl Gálvez and his two children in 2018. Photo: @dianavegal, Twitter

In Diana’s case, it is not the first time she has joined her mother’s teams. According to information from her campaign team, by 1998, Xóchitl Gálvez had a 70 percent shareholding in her company Operation and Maintenance of Intelligent Buildings (OMEI), where she was also the sole administrator of the company. . But in 2010, the Company accepted her resignation from that position and Diana Vega was appointed as Sole Administrator, so in 2011, Xóchitl donated 100 percent of her shares to Diana.

That version was contradicted, again, by official documents.

However published in January 2024 that in the Public Registry there are two documents referring to OMEI: the first dates from May 6, 1998 when it was established with 140 shares for Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz and 60 for Rubén Sánchez Manzo, her husband. She remained as agent and he as operator.

The second document, consulted at the end of 2023, is dated October 14, 2014, that is, three years after Diana Vega Gálvez, according to the candidate, took power of the company.

The name of Diana Vega does not appear in this one. This is the record of an ordinary general meeting and the officials and/or representatives are listed. Firstly, there is Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz as attorney-in-fact with general power of attorney for lawsuits and collections, acts of ownership and administration.

OMEI is a company that from 2015 to 2023 has entered into 36 contracts with public agencies for an amount of 406 million 896 thousand 535 pesos, the majority obtained in the current administration.

Diana is not only related to OMEI but also to High Tech Services, Gálvez’s other company and of which Diana is the legal representative and which was also implicated in the “red house” case.

In 2021, Gálvez bought one of the five houses that Mrs. Guadalupe Norma Suinaga de Alonso built on her land for 9 million 768 thousand pesos, despite the fact that the sale price that same year was 15.5 million pesos, according to the advertising published. by Guadalupe Alonso Norma, daughter of the saleswoman and partner of the Slot Studio company, which designed the project.

The seller’s other daughter, María del Pilar Alonso Norma, states in her Linkedin profile that she worked as an “administration assistant” at High Tech Services, from June 2007 to June 2008.

This company, from 2015 to 2023, had income of 1,65,286,968 pesos from the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), which in the Government of Enrique Peña Nieto gave it a total of 18,795,000 between 2025 and 2018. 536 pesos; from the National Institute for the Evaluation of Education, which from 2015 to 2019 gave it 9 million 209 thousand 801 pesos; In this last year the Federal Judiciary Council gave him 85,867 pesos and a year later Banobras 73,250 pesos.

Daniela Barragan

He is a journalist from UNAM, with a specialty in politics from Carlos Septién. The last few years she has dedicated to data journalism, with emphasis on issues of poverty, inequality, transparency and gender.

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