Sheinbaum Signs Decree Mandating 'Total Transparency' Across Federal Government

President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a Decree to Strengthen Transparency in the Federal Government, the opening step of a broader anti-corruption package due to reach Congress in September 2026. The decree strips federal agencies of discretion over what information they disclose, requires publication of government contracts (including Pemex and CFE subsidiary data) monthly rather than quarterly, and simplifies the prior 173 information-classification categories down to a narrow set tied only to national security and active litigation. Anti-Corruption and Good Governance Minister Raquel Buenrostro said the National Transparency Platform has been stabilized to centralize contracts, audits, and state-enterprise data, absorbing functions previously split across the defunct INAI (which cost over 1 billion pesos annually). States and municipalities were invited to adopt the same maximum-disclosure standard.