The opacity about the state of health of López Obrador opens a new front to Gobierno

Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that he was positive about covid-19 the home. Since then, the information has been flowing to the accounts. It is known that there are live episodes, such as “brief episodes of February”, which were confined to the residence of the Palacio Nacional and that it has a group of specialists captured by the secretary of Salud, Jorge Alcocer. Little more. The blindness about the evolution of the president’s medical team, of 67 years, is set to open a new front in the Gobierno ante the demands of a mayor transparency in aras of public interest and haste of national security.

While waiting for the convalescence of López Obrador, the Secretary of Government, Olga Sánchez Cordero, it is time to close the daily conference conferences. During his first speech, the luncheon, Sanchez Cordero justified the need for respectful information on the right to intimacy of López Obrador: “The President is the Lord of the State and the Lord of Gobierno, but also a person and his sensitive dates” . On the other hand, the Deputy Secretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, stated: “The privacy of President López Obrador is being scrupulously respected and the confidentiality of his state of health will be preserved”. This Wednesday, López-Gatell informs that he spoke to the President by telephone and the message that the transmission was: “I have a little bit of pain, and he insists so much”.

The tension between respect for privacy and the right to information is set out in the Constitution. In the particular case of politicians or public charges, the Supreme Court of Justice has marked the case with a set of failures in respect. “It has been established that there is a tension, but there is no dilemma”, says Eduardo Bohórquez, director of Transparencia Mexicana. “When a particular intervention in public service is accepted by a special regime that obliges me to have more information than normal. In this case, we are dealing with the governor and state chief, the central figure of our presidential system. For national security and political stability it is necessary to know ”.

The moon, a day after the public outrage, José Luis Alomía, Director-General of the Epidemiology of Gobierno and one of the spokesmen for the pandemic, adelanto that the president had to follow in front, but with a big profile, waiting Virtual meetings and telephone calls. The prophet López Obrador assures that he will pay tribute to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Of these, there are no more photos of the chairman and the presidential agenda is vacant.

The experts consulted consider that it has sufficient margin to supplement with the right of public interest and access to information without compromising the intimacy of the President. “Gobierno’s proposal has, in the first instance, the obligation to provide information in order to ensure that we obtain rights,” said Sarahí Salvatierra, a lawyer specializing in transparency for the Fundar organization. Make public the clinical clerk, for example, should consider an excess, but a general information about the diagnosis, prognosis and places within the constitutional market.

“Ya no me pertenezco”

The logic for the publicity of the president’s salute was plummeted by the proposal López Obrador during his first speech as president – “Yo ya no me pertenezco, yo soy de ustedes”, dijo en diciembre de 2018 ante un Zócalo abarrotado. Since then, the Governor of Morena has blamed the breach of transparency on numerous occasions, as an unavoidable blow to his cross against corruption. The most recent example was the publication of the DEA’s confidential investigation into General Salvador Cienfuegos.

‘The problem is that we confuse transparency with aperture. El presidente la la cara todas las mañanas. For the sake of transparency, this is transparency, ”said the director of Transparency International, who said that the channel for the rendering of accounts works precisely on the inverse. Its requests and requests from the civil society and the capacity of the Administration to respond, on the basis of public dates and protocols that allow access, which ensure effective transparency.

In this sense, López Obrador has announced that he is preparing a reform controversy to eliminate and modify some of the institutions of transparency and governmental regulation. Its plans pass, by a drawer, to integrate the National Institute of Transparency and Access to Information (INAI) in the Federal Cabinet. By other means, to accelerate the places of entry of any document has a maximum space of 72 hours.

The most anticipated case is that Mexico is now alive with Donald Trump. In October, the todavía president of the EE UU dio positivo justo a su esposa. From the first day it was held at a Military Medical Center, a medical staff team that the attendance was recorded daily by the medical staff and the citizens through the communication media. Other recent Mexican presidents have also been the object of escutation when they experienced health problems during their cargo. “Vicente Fox Quesada read about being interned by a herniated disc and being informed about the tooth, the bone, the comma. Enrique Peña Nieto also underwent surgery and, with more opacity, was informed, ”added Bohórquez, who exemplified Colombian President Juan Manual Santos and the public communication during the diagnosis and surgery of a cancer patient.

López Obrador’s proposition was very belligerent during one of Enrique Peña Nieto’s medical interventions. In June 2014, approves the cohort to express specifically the renunciations of the presidency’s advocating for health reasons: Ni lo creo, ni lo deseo. But it is a good salute to his renunciation for his evident incapacity ”.