Background on Key Figures and Relevance
In a surprising move, Raquel Buenrostro, the secretary, will visit the former “house of transparency” a week earlier than initially planned to formally receive termination acts from four excomisionados of the Inai. This action will effectively extinguish the autonomous body and pave the way for a decentralized entity to assume its functions.
Alejandro García Ravizé Guízar, an information technology specialist and former SAT and Economy functionary, now the head of innovation at SABG, has taken a significant role in this process. He leads the slate proposed by Secretary Buenrostro to take charge of the new decentralized entity, Transparency for the People.
Impact on Institutions and Telecommunications Sector
The IFT has temporarily halted its transition process, as the legislative process leading to new regulations remains frozen. In its latest session, the consultive council approved a proposal to draft its memorandum while exploring whether to issue a recommendation regarding the implications on concession titles within the juridical framework reform.
As stakeholders in the telecommunications sector voiced their concerns about the new Federal Telecommunications Law, the Digital Transformation Agency prepared for its launch and boasted on social media about newly acquired “talent,” including Tania Villa Trápala, from the organization facing extinction.
Senator Javier Corral Jurado echoed the warning about concentrating power in a single institution being risky in the long term. He emphasized the need to “curtail discretion.”
Government Stance and Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones
President Claudia Sheinbaum reaffirmed her commitment to expanding liberties and rights. She insisted that the Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones does not propose censorship in any form but instead strengthens regulation. The law reportedly covers internet, cellular telephony, fixed telephony, satellite bands, and all aspects of telecommunications.
The legislation aims to replace autonomous constitutional bodies such as Cofece, Inai, and Ifetel with new colegiated entities to foster competition and transparency while minimizing bureaucracy and corruption.
Secondary Effects
PRENDIDOS (Bound)
Even before announcing Plan C, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador explicitly intended to eliminate constitutional autonomous bodies. This early and decisive action included not ratifying commissioners (Inai, IFT) and magistrates (electoral and TFJA) chosen by the Senate. Among these latter cases are Yadira Alarcón and Bárbara Templos Vázquez, who both sought legal recourse to remain in their respective institutions.
CONFLICTIVOS (Conflictive)
Career civil servants have been excluded from the start of the Fourth Transformation, now under the guise of republican austerity. Miguel Malfavon, Director General of Human Resources at the Foreign Ministry, and Pedro Matar, Director General of Political Coordination, are leading a campaign against dwindling political appointees from former partisan labels now integrated into the Mexican Service Abroad. Targets include consuls general and ambassadors stationed in the US and Europe, who have faced salary cuts and limited expenses.
