More on the Barriers to the IFAI

As El Universal reported and Gancho discussed last week, the Calderón administration is looking to secure an endorsement of a Campeche law that will reduce public access to information before the Supreme Court, at which point it will presumably try to apply a similar version of the law nationwide. Not surprisingly, the IFAI is not in favor of such a scenario unfolding. Here's is a portion of the institute's reaction:

It not only removes the speed of the procedure, but also the simplicity, and any individual that doesn't have the technical knowledge of judicial concepts will necessarily require a judicial advisor to unclog the legal process and therefore try to obtain a ruling favorable to their interests.

They also said that access to information will become the province of the elites only.