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INAI, the last efforts
It is a kind of armistice. The commissioners of the National Transparency Institute, access to information and protection of personal data (INAI) are working with the Secretariat of Anti -Corruption and Good Governance to try to dismantle the institution that guaranteed transparency and protection of personal data not Be so traumatic.
Commissioner President Adrián Alcalá Méndez, and Commissioners Norma Julieta del Río Venegas, Blanca Lilia Ibarra Cadena and Josefina Román Vergara are acting under the principle of reality.
The defeat suffered by INAI, along with other autonomous institutes, is more than evident, although we must not lose sight of everything that had to happen on the journey to be even more sour.
A part of the tangle had to do with internal conflicts, not because the unity of the commissioners would have avoided the dismantling, because that was a decision of the then President López Obrador, which became possible by the conformation of questionable majorities in the legislative chambers, but because they led to the criticisms to be exacerbated and it gave the destructive spirits.
They were not called to be heroes, but they could be elegant, maintain sanity and not poison the atmosphere with stories that ended up distorting what the INAI is actually and what cost the society to be built.
One of the highest costs is that the reputation was found and the suspicion was sown that deactivated, to a large extent, the few defense instruments, which, even if they were testimonial, were still on the table.
The damage of the reform that led to the extinction of the INAI will be deep, but you can work to save something in its boundaries.
For this, the five work tables were established to address a range of issues, including administrative, legal issues, information technologies, transparent and personal data.
The tables will be in office until the transfer process to the Secretariat of Anti -Corruption is completed and the secondary laws are oil, which are the last possibility of establishing a kind of technical autonomy that allows them not to stop, at all, the instruments of transparency and access to information.
The Government will be a judge and part in regards to the information that will be public and especially in which it will be classified as reserved, and that is where any nuance can be significant.
Because if the reflexes of the bureaucracies prevail, already without the guarantor organ to channel them, we will enter an informative blackout, such as the one that prevailed before the birth of then IFAI.
Hopefully this collaboration exercise with the Secretary Raquel Buenrostro fruitifies and manages to save what is necessary and in particular the transparency platform.
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INAI, the last efforts
Julián Andrade
