Telecommunications: control, above rights

The second working president has managed to galvanize control over the public media. Claudia Sheinbaum’s controversial initiative to regulate telecommunications is consistent with that drift, and has also raised multiple alarms. Continue reading

With a reform that imitates in many of its parts the so-called Resort Law of Venezuela (of Social Responsibility in Radio, Television and Electronic Media) and that also recovers other parts of the failed reform of Peña Nieto in 2014, President Claudia Sheinbaum tried to approve, in fast track and without anyone knowing the full content of the initiative, a new Federal Telecommunications Law that, besides establishing the new legal framework tha…

Mexico City, Apr 25 (Latin Press) The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, today reaffirmed her position against censorship and suggested to the Senate to modify or delete an article from an initiative on telecommunications sent by her to the upper house. The post President of Mexico reaffirms position against censorship first appeared on Noticias Prensa Latina.

The Telecommunications Law Institute (IDET) called the Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law initiative sent by the Chief Executive to the Senate “pure and rough censorship never seen before in Mexico.” In a statement, the body criticized the new law proposed by the head of the federal executive giving powers to the [...]

José Antonio Peña Merino or Pepe Merino was appointed as head of the new Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency in the future government of Claudia Sheinbaum.This is not only a new appointment for Claudia Shienbaum's cabinet, but a new agency in the government at the federal level, similar to that in the government of the CDMX.The Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency will have an important role in two of the project…

The initiative of the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Act, which is analyzed by the Senate, is a “copy, with poorly thought out and structured patches” of the 2014 reform, but which incorporates elements of censorship that could be implemented by the ATDT, as well as articles that openly violate the T-MEC, assured the Institute of Telecommunications Law (IDET). The institutional design proposed by the document prepared by the Federal…