iMex. México Interdisciplinario/Interdisciplinary Mexico (Jan 2015)
Las leyes secundarias en telecomunicaciones y el retorno de la dictadura perfecta en México
Abstract
After the significant progress achieved in the Constitutional Telecommunications Reform in 2013, with a delay of almost 100 days, President Enrique Peña Nieto sent to the Senate of the Republic on March 24, 2014 the initiative of Secondary Laws to regulate said Reform. Such presidential project was highly worrisome since that proposal denied the main aspects of progress already achieved in such matter. The first phase of the Reform was achieved thanks to the agreements reached by the Pact for Mexico, and when this broke down due to the internal crisis of the PAN and the PRD, the PRI showed that it no longer needed them as political allies to govern the country, as it had already achieved the 7 structural reforms demanded by the OECD to attract new international capital flows (labor, protection, education, telecommunications, tax and energy reforms), and thus reactivate the national growth model that had stagnated during the last six years. However, in the second phase of consolidation of the Reform through the elaboration of the secondary regulations on telecommunications, the PRI and its associated parties were no longer interested in creating an inclusive democratic future for Mexican society; rather, they were only concerned with building the conditions to reinstall the prototype of the «Imperial Presidency» that operated during 7 decades of the 20th century in Mexico. With this, the PRI tried to rebuild in the 21st century the political formula, baptized in 1990 by the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, as the "Perfect Dictatorship", composed by the strength of the governance of the dominant party or parties, plus the sum of the mental and emotional power produced by Televisa’s hegemony and its new "business compadre" partner, Televisión Azteca, to co-govern Mexican society in the third millennium.
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