Clara Brugada: Zarco Not Dismissed at Railway Workers Museum

This article originally appeared in the December 19, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Salvador Zarco Flores “has not been dismissed” as director of the Railway Workers Museum nor “have I authorized that his resignation be requested,” Clara Brugada, head of Government of Mexico City, announced yesterday in a statement.

The local leader announced “a grand public event to honor the railroad workers of Mexico and our colleague Salvador Zarco, whom I will propose as an honorary and lifetime member of the Museum’s Advisory Council, which will be formed as soon as possible.”

Brugada’s statement was issued five days after La Jornada (12/13/25) published that a part of the cultural community supported the activist and railway leader to remain in charge of the Railway Workers Museum.

According to the signatories of an open letter at the time, on December 5th, the Director General of Historical, Artistic and Cultural Heritage of the local Culture Department “went so far as to ask her to sign his resignation.”

In her press release, Clara Brugada emphasized the honor it will be for her to “celebrate with Salvador, during the coming May, the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Railway Workers Museum, a unique space in our city dedicated to the vindication of the collective memory of those heroes who, defending their jobs, gave a lesson of dignity to the whole country and sowed the seed of the transformation of Mexico.”

In the document issued this Thursday, the mayor of the country’s capital highlighted that “Salvador is a reference point for the labor movement and the struggles of the workers of this city.

“From a young age he participated in various social and student organizations that broke the silence in the face of the authoritarian regime and fought for a better, fairer and more democratic country, paying the high price of persecution, repression and imprisonment.”

As a member of the “great railway workers’ movement,” Brugada continued, he fought against “the privatization of the nation’s assets, the violation of labor rights and the plundering of public assets during neoliberalism.”