- INAI Commissioner recognizes Sinaloa as a pioneer in transparency laws.
- Sinaloa is consolidated as the venue for national events.
Culiacán, Sinaloa, June 14, 2022.- Governor Rubén Rocha Moya opened the event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the issuance of transparency laws in Mexico, organized by the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), the Institute of Transparency of the State of Jalisco (ITEI) and the Commission for Access to Public Information of Sinaloa (CEAIP), in which four analysis tables will be held on the current challenges in the right to public information.
In his message, Rocha Moya considered that after the establishment of democratic competition in Mexico through norms, procedures and institutions, the full democratization of public powers must continue through the adoption and practice of the culture of transparency as a central theme and essential condition of the right to know.
The State Executive emphasized that control and access to quality public information are currently privileged, in contrast to the old authoritarian regime that operated with the logic of an autocratic system in which rulers were omnipresent and invisible at the same time, because the State was vigilant of all and removed from citizen surveillance.
“The opacity of power is the most absolute negation of democracy, because it eludes the most elementary of the obligations of all representatives, namely to be accountable to those they represent, to the people who are the source of all legitimate power, in other words, they ignored the maxim that the president is not the one who commands, but rather the one who obeys the popular mandate,” said the Governor.
Adrián Alcalá Méndez, Commissioner of the INAI, recalled that Sinaloa was one of the pioneer states in the approval of transparency laws throughout the country, which allowed the foundation of the normative and institutional scaffolding that was the seed for the establishment of two human rights to Information that is guaranteed by 33 organizations throughout the national territory, which has generated international recognition.
“The ITEI, the CEAIP and the INAI, joined efforts to recognize the place where those first efforts crystallized to achieve the necessary regulatory framework to give effect at that time to the incipient right to information and that today is very consolidated throughout the world. national territory,” said the Commissioner.
He emphasized that firm steps have been taken to make Mexico a more transparent country, but he also recognized that there are new challenges facing both authorities and civil society, which must be faced to more effectively socialize the right to know, endorsing their commitment to Sinaloa so that they see another ally in the national guarantor body.
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