Óscar Guerra Ford and Rosendoevgueni Monterrey Chepov were commissioners of the inai during 8 years. His assignment ended on March 31, 2022, but his commitment is infinite and they have returned for a second wind, reloaded. By the way, for Monterrey to occupy his new position, José de Jesús Ramírez Sánchez was asked to resign. You already know: two people cannot occupy the same position.
“It is not illegal, but it is immoral”, says a classic from the National Palace… Or is it better that “It is not false but it is exaggerated”?
Óscar Guerra and Rosendoevgueni Monterrey held a position in the highest-ranking body of the public office responsible for transparency and personal data in Mexico. They exercised the highest position of power and participated in the collegiate table to make the most important decisions of an autonomous constitutional body.
On May 4, their former plenary colleagues voted unanimously to reincorporate them into Inai as their subordinates.
the vote lasted less than three minutes. Everything was ironed: “In favor, naturally,” said commissioner Francisco Javier Acuña Llamas. “Of course, in favor,” said Commissioner Adrián Alcalá Méndez.
Guerra returns as executive secretary of the National Transparency System, which coordinates all transparency offices in Mexico.
Monterrey, as executive secretary of Inai, responsible for the institute’s national and international public relations.
Each one will receive 125,000 pesos net monthly in salaries and benefits (without the straw of taxes). Barely 10,000 pesos less than when they were commissioners. What a relief.
The tenure of the Executive Secretariat was not vacant. occupied it for almost 8 years José de Jesús Ramírez Sánchez, for which he was asked to resign.
So add up the expenses to cover the settlement. The Executive Secretariat is a position of trust: without the job protection of a basic position, without the coverage of a position in a professional career service.
The position that Guerra will occupy was vacant. It was occupied by Federico Guzmán Tamayo, who resigned coinciding with the end of the War and Monterrey commissions on March 31.
Guzmán Tamayo was taken by Monterrey to the inai. Ramírez Sánchez was taken by Guerra. The distribution of positions is the privilege of the so-called “interference areas” that correspond to each commissioner: quotas of power that they have to manage during their periods.
These changes in inai They take place in a context where the institution has been under fire since the National Palace, where a president lives who one day and another also launches accusations of abuses against this constitutional body that he considers to be the result of the quotas of power of the political “old regime”.
The advisory council of inaia citizen monitoring and accompaniment body, asked to be transparent “the files related to the appointments” of Guerra and Monterrey, “in accordance with the constitutional principle of maximum publicity.”
But there is nothing to reveal: the agreements to reinstate Guerra and Monterrey are not found in public documents, but rather in the corridor conversations of the commissioners while President Blanca Lilia Ibarra Cadena had breakfast in Uruguay, on an official trip representing the inai.
Because another classic already said: “Living outside the budget is living in error”.
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Journalist. Since 2010 he edits the digital version of El Economista in Mexico City. Master in Transparency and Protection of Personal Data from the University of Guadalajara. He has a specialization in telecommunications and information technology law. His personal blog is Economicon.