Overview

• The government ordered an immediate end to Di Meglio’s tenure, cutting short a transition that had been slated for late July.
• Subsecretary Liliana Barela relayed a presidential decree by phone, citing dissatisfaction with the director’s public statements.
• María Inés Rodríguez Aguilar, the national director of museums, assumed leadership of the MHN without a competitive contest.
• Officials have yet to announce or schedule any merit-based selection process for the museum’s directorship.
• Di Meglio plans to hold his farewell guided talk outside the museum gates in protest of what he calls an unjust removal.