MEXICO CITY — When Blanca Lilia Ibarra was a reporter in the 1980s, getting information on the workings of the Mexican government depended on who you knew.
“That information is only given to national outlets,” a press secretary told her in response to questions about a new immigration law.
In the following years, journalists, activists and academics successfully lobbied for freedom of information laws and ultimately the creation of the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Data Protection.
