Leticia Bonifaz

INAI is ours

The defense of INAI is not as visible as the defense of INE but, in the end, both public institutions are in some way guarantors of democracy because accountability is an essential part of it.

By Leticia Bonifaz

The IFAI/INAI was born as a sign of new times. When the changeover came in 2000, one of the demands was to install a system that would fully guarantee citizens the right to information and the consequent accountability of those in power.

The initiative arose from the so-called "Oaxaca group" made up of citizens, mostly from academia, who met in the capital of that southern state. The group worked on an initiative for a Federal Law on Access to Information that was taken up by various parliamentary fractions and presented on December 6, 2001. This means that we have already had two decades with a system that had been getting stronger until the current onslaught.

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