The Metro Street Vendor, who is now Regional Director at the Mexico City Ministry of Culture

The career of the Director General of the Institute for the Defense of Cultural Rights provoked controversy in social networks, because before reaching the organization of the Ministry of Culture of Mexico, Jesús Galindo Calderón was a representative of street vendors.

Five years ago, it was the voice of some 300 merchants, commonly called "wagons", who sold products in Line 2 of the Metro transit system, between the stations of San Antonio Abad and Bellas Artes.

He is now in charge of the institute which has, among other obligations, the development of public policies and legal rules for the protection of the rights of the districts and cities of the capital and their cultural heritage.

Since last December, when Claudia Sheinbaum protested at the head of the government of the capital, Galindo is the director general of the Institute for the Defense of Cultural Rights., position by which he receives a gross monthly salary of 81,600 pesos (4,237 USD).

Information published by the Mexican newspaper L & # 39; economist He cites that there is no data from his professional card in the National Register of Professionals. Galindo's work experience includes advice to lawmakers in the capital and at the reception of the Remittance Committee of the last Legislative Assembly of the Federal District.

When in 2014 the government of the capital tried to withdraw traders known as "trolleys" subway facilities, the name of Jesus Galindo Calderón appeared.

In an interview with La Silla Rota, he confirmed that, as a representative of the merchants, he wanted the government to promote appropriate conditions so that the 300 represented would leave the sale of their products in the wagons. it is not that they have not had preparation, but "that there are no work options, and if they exist, they are precarious"

He said that although he has a degree in communication and journalism from UNAM, lack of employment and economic needs have led him to continue selling in the metro, a job that he learned in his childhood.

At that time, Galindo commented: "The government raises certain things for image reasons, but that is not the reality. If they offer us well-paid employment sources or regularly, trust me, we go there, thousand loves. "