The right of reply

The right of reply is the power that any person (natural or legal) has to request the correction of facts that refer to them and harm them because they consider them to be inaccurate or incomplete. And although it is not a new right, as we find its remote antecedents in the 19th century in the Decree of the Cortes of November 10, 1810, establishing Political Freedom of the Press, in the Decree of Marshal Élie-Fréderic Forey to allow the reappearance of newspapers (1863), Emperor Maximilian's Printing Law (1865), and the Law on Printing Offenses (1917), it was not until 2007 that it was elevated to constitutional status in the first paragraph of Article 6: “[...] the right of reply shall be exercised in accordance with the terms established by law [...],” a provision from which the Regulatory Law of Article 6, first paragraph, of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (CPEUM) on the right of reply of 2015 derives.