In March 2018 the dispute gained public attention through social networks – with the hashtag #YaPágameINBA (Pay Me Already, INBA) – because the staff hired for fees had not received the payments corresponding to January and February of that year, and because this was a recurrent practice of the institute.

The protest went viral and attracted the attention of various media outlets after the publication of a tweet from the official account of the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL) denouncing the lack of payment.

Later that day, a group of around 70 people demonstrated peacefully outside the Palacio de Bellas Artes, with placards demanding the improvement of their working conditions.

[5] They also declared themselves incapable of resolving the labor crisis, arguing that the hiring schemes are established by the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit.

[8] In March 2018, Lidia Camacho was part of a multi-member candidacy for the Senate of the Republic by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) as a substitute for Vanessa Rubio, the office coordinator of presidential candidate José Antonio Meade.