A district judge in criminal matters has sentenced Jaqueline Malinali Gálvez Ruiz, sister of former presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, to 89 years in prison after being found guilty of kidnapping. The sentence comes almost 12 years after the operation that led to the detention of the criminal gang Los Tolmex, of which Gálvez was a part.
Jaqueline Malinali Gálvez is currently being held at the Santa Martha Acatitla prison in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City. Former presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez was nominated by the coalition Fuerza y Corazón por México, made up of PRI, PAN, and PRD, in 2024, receiving 27.45% of the votes, while the current president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, won with nearly 60% of the ballots.
The father of Xóchitl and Jaqueline Malinali was a Bilingual Basic Education teacher, and their mother was a homemaker. In her official biography, it is noted that Xóchitl sold jellies during her childhood to pay for her studies. Jaqueline Malinali Gálvez's sentence is related to her participation in a kidnapping case that occurred in 2012.
In 1992, Xóchitl Gálvez founded High Tech Services, a company dedicated to advanced projects in the field of high technology for smart buildings. In July 2023, this company was used by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador to link it with former president Vicente Fox and report multimillion-dollar contracts with the now-defunct National Institute of Transparency (INAI).
Xóchitl studied Computer Engineering with a specialization in robotics, artificial intelligence, smart buildings, sustainability, and energy savings at UNAM. She defines herself as an indigenous woman of Otomí origin.
