In 2000, she was appointed head of the National Institute of Indigenous People; in 2018, she was elected senator for the PAN.

In 2000, she was appointed head of the National Institute of Indigenous People; in 2018, she was elected senator for the PAN.

 Galvez, who is partially fluent in the native Otomi indigenous language, was a street vendor in the village of Tepatepec as a young girl, and as a young woman left for Mexico City to study at Mexico’s most prestigious public university. She graduated in engineering, worked as an engineer for several major companies and, in 1992, founded her company, High Tech Services, which designs intelligent buildings.

When I asked Galvez about the president’s claims that she was picked by Mexico’s business magnates, she laughed and said, “I’ve never been afraid of anything in my life. I’m a woman to whom nobody has given anything.”