It was a milestone for Mexico’s democracy. Now López Obrador wants to get rid of the country’s freedom of information institute.

[Disir]

Now, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to rein in the National Institute for Access to Information, or INAI, the independent body that runs the system. He says it’s expensive and has failed to end corruption.


The effort has revealed a deepening split in Mexico over the very nature of its democracy. To a generation of reformers, the freedom of information system represented a milestone in Mexico’s transformation from an authoritarian state. The institute was one of multiple independent agencies formed to organize elections, investigate human rights abuses and otherwise serve as checks on the powerful presidency. They became “the protective layers of our democracy,” wrote Enrique Campos Suárez, a columnist for El Economista newspaper.


López Obrador, a populist with leftist roots, maintains that the transition to democracy has largely been a sham — benefiting a self-serving elite while neglecting the poor.
“All these administrative structures were created to simulate a fight against corruption, to simulate transparency, to simulate that there wouldn’t be impunity,” he told reporters. “It was all a farce.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-amlo-freedom-information-inai-democracy/2021/02/13/f73268ec-66e1-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html

It needs to remain. Obrador needs to get it together.

 

[TheParser]

Sadly, the way our Big Tech has been acting recently, we are in NO position to criticize Mexico or any other country when it comes to freedom of expression.

 

[MarathonMike]

Now, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to rein in the National Institute for Access to Information, or INAI, the independent body that runs the system. He says it’s expensive and has failed to end corruption.


The effort has revealed a deepening split in Mexico over the very nature of its democracy. To a generation of reformers, the freedom of information system represented a milestone in Mexico’s transformation from an authoritarian state. The institute was one of multiple independent agencies formed to organize elections, investigate human rights abuses and otherwise serve as checks on the powerful presidency. They became “the protective layers of our democracy,” wrote Enrique Campos Suárez, a columnist for El Economista newspaper.


López Obrador, a populist with leftist roots, maintains that the transition to democracy has largely been a sham — benefiting a self-serving elite while neglecting the poor.
“All these administrative structures were created to simulate a fight against corruption, to simulate transparency, to simulate that there wouldn’t be impunity,” he told reporters. “It was all a farce.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-amlo-freedom-information-inai-democracy/2021/02/13/f73268ec-66e1-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html

It needs to remain. Obrador needs to get it together.

Remember the 9 American family members who were murdered and burned to death in their cars just South of the border? Did anything happen to the drug cartel who did it? Of course not. The drug cartels run Mexico.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

Now, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to rein in the National Institute for Access to Information, or INAI, the independent body that runs the system. He says it’s expensive and has failed to end corruption.


The effort has revealed a deepening split in Mexico over the very nature of its democracy. To a generation of reformers, the freedom of information system represented a milestone in Mexico’s transformation from an authoritarian state. The institute was one of multiple independent agencies formed to organize elections, investigate human rights abuses and otherwise serve as checks on the powerful presidency. They became “the protective layers of our democracy,” wrote Enrique Campos Suárez, a columnist for El Economista newspaper.


López Obrador, a populist with leftist roots, maintains that the transition to democracy has largely been a sham — benefiting a self-serving elite while neglecting the poor.
“All these administrative structures were created to simulate a fight against corruption, to simulate transparency, to simulate that there wouldn’t be impunity,” he told reporters. “It was all a farce.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-amlo-freedom-information-inai-democracy/2021/02/13/f73268ec-66e1-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html

It needs to remain. Obrador needs to get it together.

Benefiting a self serving elite while neglecting the poor......AND everyone else. Sure this isn't about America?

 

[Disir]

Now, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to rein in the National Institute for Access to Information, or INAI, the independent body that runs the system. He says it’s expensive and has failed to end corruption.


The effort has revealed a deepening split in Mexico over the very nature of its democracy. To a generation of reformers, the freedom of information system represented a milestone in Mexico’s transformation from an authoritarian state. The institute was one of multiple independent agencies formed to organize elections, investigate human rights abuses and otherwise serve as checks on the powerful presidency. They became “the protective layers of our democracy,” wrote Enrique Campos Suárez, a columnist for El Economista newspaper.


López Obrador, a populist with leftist roots, maintains that the transition to democracy has largely been a sham — benefiting a self-serving elite while neglecting the poor.
“All these administrative structures were created to simulate a fight against corruption, to simulate transparency, to simulate that there wouldn’t be impunity,” he told reporters. “It was all a farce.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-amlo-freedom-information-inai-democracy/2021/02/13/f73268ec-66e1-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html

It needs to remain. Obrador needs to get it together.

Benefiting a self serving elite while neglecting the poor......AND everyone else. Sure this isn't about America?

We're riding real close to that line.