V. Ballinas and A. Becerril
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, May 20, 2022, p. 7
The Senate keeps seven requests from the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in the freezer to summon the same number of federal and local authorities, such as the governor of Tabasco and the head of the National Water Commission (Conagua) to appear. , to explain why they have refused to accept their recommendations in cases of serious violations of guarantees.
The head of the CNDH, Rosario Piedra Ibarra, resorted to the power granted by the Constitution to ask that chamber of Congress to call the officials who refuse to receive and abide by the recommendations that they have been given.
These are documents issued in shifts in 2019 (one) and 2020 (six), but the authorities they addressed did not accept them. In some cases, the head of the organization has even changed, as in Conagua, whose director was Blanca Jiménez and is currently Germán Martínez Santoyo.
