Economic Package 2023 based on happy accountsAMLO lies to the UNIn one month and 7 days it will be five years since the earthquake of September 2017, 19 days later it will be the same years as the catastrophic earthquake that claimed the lives of 369 people.Since then, the resources for reconstruction at many levels, including Cultural Heritage, have been used irresponsibly, to say the least, and opaquely, to name it with all its letters.That, and evidence obtained from a source, or whistleblower (whistleblower), as it is known in the world of journalism, was the thesis with which I began to investigate since October 2019 how much, how and for what the money was used. Seguros Banorte paid the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), in charge of Cultural Heritage in Mexico.After two years of questioning the INAH and INAH Centers in 11 states, via transparency, receiving resistance and even falsehoods in their answers, submitting resources for review, analyzing hundreds of budgets for reconciliations between the insurance and the insured, and building databases , I spoke with Rutilia Amigón Amigón, INAH architect attached to the Center-INAH Puebla.Rutilia, who was not the primary source who gave me documents and with whom I chatted for hours (and whom I also thank infinitely), was a key player in the report "INAH loses track of 175 million pesos and is left without an earthquake policy." published on September 21, 2021 in PODER.We reveal that it is not known exactly how the resources paid by the insurance to INAH for the reconstruction were used, among other things, due to a payment agreement in kind with Seguros Banorte that was not recorded in any official document, bad practices and corruption within from high school.Rutilia was also the only INAH worker of all the ones I spoke to who agreed to be my source openly, with her name and her position and supporting her every word.Along with my report, a few weeks later, Rutilia published a text called "The earthquakes of 2017, my experience in the Mixteca of Puebla", in which she narrated the bad practices she witnessed during the attempted reconstruction of movable and immovable property in Puebla. .She also reappeared as a source in other notes, according to what she declared to the magazine Proceso in June 2022. Now, unfairly and unfortunately, she faces retaliation from the institute.In February 2022, hospitalized and convalescing after an operation, “without any scruple, they took advantage of my vulnerability to inform me of the change of assignment to Sinaloa, demanding that I report to Culiacán immediately and cornering me with the illegal withholding of my salary.The administrative processes against me suffer from irregularities and violate my human, labor and constitutional rights”, explains Rutilia in a statement that she shared with me.The harassment has continued.Among other things, she discovered that INAH had stopped paying her contributions to ISSSTE in favor of Rutilia as an employee since 2017. After complaining, INAH paid what she owed, but the damage had been done.Sinaloa has now presented her with unjustified absences and refuses to receive the licenses that the ISSSTE granted her to justify her absences for health reasons.The architect is fighting back through lawsuits, but points out that "the way in which the authorities have handled things reveals a hatched plan to expel me from the INAH. What in the field of Human Rights is defined as 'constructed dismissal'" , said.When I looked for INAH sources to tell me about the reconstruction disaster, several refused to speak because they feared reprisals.His fears were not unfounded.Rutilia's case is not the only one in which officials, and even entire dependencies, decide to open fire against whistleblowers or whistleblowers (anonymous or named) who dare to talk about the filthiness of the system.As journalists we must admit that there is a limit to the protection we can give our sources.When they are open, like Rutilia, the risk is shared and one can only honor a commitment to reproduce as faithfully as possible what these people are telling.When the source is off the record or anonymous, we can honor the promise not to reveal who it is.And we can also promote the creation and operation of secure leak mailboxes, such as Méxicoleaks, where neither the media nor the journalists who are part of them know who is the person who sends documents and complaints.For this reason, given these limits, it is essential to move forward with a General Law for the protection of Corruption Whistleblowers, in which a multi-stakeholder working group collaborated between 2020 and 2021. The Protection Protocol for Corruption Whistleblowers already exists. Corruption issued by the Ministry of Public Administration (SFP), to give certainty to people reporting serious acts of corruption and diversion of public resources committed in the government.However, she was arrested.A few days ago, on July 13, Morena sent a bill to the Senate, but in the eyes of Paulina Madero, an expert lawyer in Human Rights and a participant in the drafting of the law that was suspended, Morena's proposal "suffers from a holistic vision, does not really contemplate human rights or protocols as complete as those proposed by the working group with Civil Society".If it works, the bill in which Madero participated could be a positive tool for people like Rutilia, who decide to raise their voices through the means available to them at the time, such as participating in a report or writing their own. .Meanwhile, it remains to put her case and others that are surely happening in the public space and give support as journalists and citizens, because the protection of whistleblowers is also a matter of healthy democracies.Subscribe here to receive directly in your email our newsletters on the news of the day, opinion, plans for the weekend, Qatar 2022 and many more options.We choose the essential columns and articles to start the dayCopyright © All rights reserved |EL UNIVERSAL, National Journalistic Company.In the absence of prior authorization, the publication, retransmission, editing and any other use of the contents is expressly prohibited.