The new legislation is predator

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The indigenous broadcasting complain with low power: discriminatory act
Legislative discriminates against to indigenous: Telecommunications
By: Carlos Damian                                           July 9, 2014
The indigenous towns request help against new legislation predator
Mexico. - The limitations imposed to the community and indigenous broadcasting in the regulation laws of telecommunications are motivated by a racist and colonialist vision of the legislators (of right-wing) who continue considering the towns natives like citizens of second whose rights should be guided by the government, Socrates Vazquez sustained (SV), memeber of the team of coordination of the Community Radio Jënpoj who pointed out the initiative looks for to weaken the alternative projects of communication and stopping to the social movements that sustain them. As long as the International Agency of Indigenous Press (AI-PIN), it studies to request a habeas corpus to stop the voting of the verdict of the laws regulation telecommunication, because it considers that they are infringing of the rights of the towns natives to exercise the communication besides that they have not been consulted with the communities, like they point out the Constitution and the Agreement 169 of the International Organization of the Work (IOW), Franco Gabriel, leader of that organization announced.

The coordinator of the Community Radio Jënpoj added that “to give us a low power and to put on until the end of the band of modulated frequency (FM) it is a discriminatory act. For us, (the federal government has) a racist and colonialist vision of the legislators and of the National Chamber of the industry of Radio and Television that come us as citizens of second". He asserted that in the facts the government stops the operation of the community radios and it criminalizes his members, he also added the legal representative of the radio station that takes 13 years operating in the mountain mixe of Oaxaca. "The assignment of frequency at the end of the band doesn't allow the growth of our broadcastings or that others arise. Also, the matter is that they only give us one percent of the state or federal publicity, that which is ridiculous and paternalistic, because that money will only be given to those who join (with the government)". SV regretted that many legislators believe the version of the commercial means that the community stations are “disloyal competition” or that they can even make that they get lost employments if they are allowed to get publicity. On the other hand, International Amnesty called to the legislators to guarantee that the law of telecommunications protects you human rights, in particular to the privacy and the freedom of speech.

We are unaware to Los Pinos: Barbosa
The coordinator of the senators of the PRD, Miguel Barbosa (MB), he said that the information published in ‘La Jornada’, “was certain in the facts but not in the interpretation", all time that the verdict of the laws of telecommunications was not elaborated in Los Pinos, but in the Senate, after diverse negotiations with the government's representatives. MB sustained that its fraction “unified” will vote this Friday; however, last night after a meeting with the president of the PRD, Jesus Zambrano Grijalva (JZ), and with the leader of New Left, Jesus Ortega, they were not able to come to an agreement. For such a reason today, before the verdict is voted before the legislative full one, JZ will meet with all the members of the blue legislative group of the Aztec sun to try to convince them that they vote against the verdict, as much in the general thing as in the particular thing. On the other hand MB and those that endorsed the document in commissions, seek him to be allowed to vote “in freedom", so that those that decide this way it endorse the verdict in the general thing and vote in against only some articles.

At the end of the encounter, JZ sustained that he went “to stretch ears” and that today he hopes an agreement is reached so that the parliamentary group votes united. To the encounter they only attended the coordinator and the senators that took the negotiation with the government, among them Zoe Robledo and Armando Ríos Piter. In the morning, MB justified that the e-mail correspondent to several deputies of the PRD for the senator Angelica de la Pena, referred to the project of the verdict, have come from Internet’s space of mail of the technical secretary of the legal Council of the Presidency internet, Misha Leonel Granados. She said that it doesn't mean it that the verdict had been elaborated in Los Pinos but rather the official was the one in charge of editing the changes and proposals to those that legislators and authorities arrived together with the technical secretary of the legislators group, Emilio Saldana. On the other hand, to before the voting of the structural reformation of telecommunications, the president of the Chamber, Raul Cervantes (PRI), he made public that finally the internal the government's office gave view to the so much accusations of the leader of the PRD, Jesus Zambrano, as of senators Layda Sansores and Manuel Bartlett, as well as of the deputy Manuel Huerta Ladron de Guevara so that it is investigated to the call Tele-group (legislators' group with commercial problems of Televisa Co), (La Jornada, Victor Ballinas, et. al.).

It doesn't make sense add audiences of TV and radio: IFETEL
The commissioned president of the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFETEL, Their initials in Spanish), Gabriel Contreras Saldívar (GC), it assured that the members’ full of the organism defined the preponderance in broadcasting for sector following the best international practices and that “it doesn't make sense add the audiences of the publics that they listen the radio with those that come television", because although it is the same sector they are different niches. "When we speak of the sector of telecommunications, we speak of convergent services: it is lent through the same cables access to Internet, restricted television or telephony. But in the broadcasting it is different, there are totally different niches; it is not the same thing to receive signs of open television that turn on the radio".”And to design political public for this environment in any part of the world sink the audiences of both services. It doesn't make sense join them to design a politics whose object is measures that avoid settling down that for the size of an economic agent you can cause damage to the competition and liberate concurrence."

About the document that indicates that IFETEL concluded that Telmex and Dish are concentrated he said that it was not an internal filtration. "We have channels for the handling of information and mechanisms of security, so we are not speaking of documents that have filtered from the interior of the Institute", the official specified. Interrogated after it signed an agreement in the IPN, GC indicated that there is a legal restriction that prevents him to be pronounced about any information related with the procedures in course inside the organism, for what didn't mean if it is an official document. However he said that as soon as in the full of IFETEL it solves the case of Dish and Telmex it will be given to know the respective information. As for the special teller of United Nations on the promotion and Protection to the Freedom of Opinion and of Expression, Frank la Rue, sustained yesterday that in the Senate that the secondary laws as regards telecommunications “should reproduce the spirit of the constitutional norm that is the population's full information", and it considered that the monopoly agent should be declared by services. He also underlined that first floor the principles of the UN, the democracy and the democratic exercise need of a full guarantee of open debate, wide of freedom of speech and transparency in the handling of the public thing, of the resources, including the political parties, so that there is not infiltration of the organized crime and it also requires of “diversity of means and pluralism of ideas."

While the presidents of the well-known commercial frankness as parties leave the legislators of the PAN-PRD that decide their legislators to vote “in freedom", with what they give in the facts to it Televisa Co., and to Los Pinos the four necessary votes in the Senate so that the television Chain leader in the market, obtain the favorable label of monopoly in the sector, and not of service, what leaves among other things free the road in the environment of the pay channels. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 3-7, July 4, 2014).