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The view from Mexico I'm in Mexico after brief stops in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica. Mexico's freedom of information law rated very highly in Toby Rendell's 2008 survey, but implementation generally has been hard going with some backsliding as explained by Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive, who I saw when I was in Washington recently.
Two years ago I noted these features of Mexico's law that didn't then have a place in our system:
We've made a little progress on some but not all since.
Posted by Peter Timmins at 9:17 am