A long string of mishaps—including hacks and the loss of strategic water concession records—has paralyzed the National Water Commission. However, right now it is immersed in an internal control process that has seriously compromised the work and resources of the substantive areas in the body headed by Germán Martínez.
Through two memorandums —signed by Alejandra Icela Martínez Rodríguez, deputy general director of water administration—, managers and deputy manager were summoned to deliver precise information on the status of the substantiation and processing of ongoing administrative processes or any other matter legal.
And no later than midnight of this Tuesday the 9th, they will have to respond to a request for a “situational diagnosis”, whose response must specify “the objectives, goals, achievements, areas of opportunity, activities carried out and the status they maintain, as well as the red flags that they consider may slow down the performance of their duties”.
Martínez Rodríguez —daughter of the Secretary of Citizen Security— invoked sections I, IX and XVIII of the Internal Regulations of the unit to request this information, which will allow it to “comply with the powers of this general sub-directorate in matters of administration, management and custody of national waters and their inherent public goods”.
The deadline to submit the reports on the conduct of the procedures in progress expires next Thursday the 11th.
Officials must submit reports —in writing, it is understood— on “the situation of the issuance of resolutions in the corresponding matters, specifying, among others: concessions, permits, censuses, occupations, notices, transmissions, declarations, requests, records, issuance of certificates and certifications. As well as the state in the attention to consultations, inspection visits, suspensions, granting and revocation of authorizations, requests for transparency, attention to audits, means of challenge and litigation.
Said information requirement implies precision regarding the date of receipt and completion of the procedures, date of compliance and —if applicable— the calculation of the days of delay.
Side effects
CONTROVERSY. The ratification of Olivia Rojo Martínez as comptroller of the CNDH left a trail of accusations about alleged influence peddling involving the executive secretary, Francisco Estrada and the lawyer Luciana Montaño Pomposo, who would have lobbied in favor of the new official of the autonomous body before federal deputies. Rojo Martínez had been in charge of the Commission’s OIC office for four years, where yesterday, May 8, a letter was circulated addressed to the owner, Rosario Piedra Ibarra, and signed by employees from different areas, to alert about “the impulsive destruction” of the executive secretary.
MULTIPLICATION. The assisted reproduction market registers a high demand, with limited supply: only 150 hospitals and assisted reproduction clinics have a health registry. Integral Fertility began operations a year ago in CDMX and almost a third of its patients are foreigners, who seek “in vitro” fertilization treatments or those to preserve their fertility such as egg freezing. FI is directed by its founder, María Altschuler, an ITAM graduate and former director of AIIVP and DILA CAPITAL.
