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Mexico’s president criticises US ‘spying’ after intel leak
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says his country will not tolerate spying on its security institutions.
Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also insisted that Mexico would not accept US anti-drug agents operating on its soil. (AP pic)
MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s president said Monday that his country would not tolerate spying by the US on its security institutions, as an intelligence leak sparked new diplomatic tensions between the neighbours.
“Acts of spying cannot be used to find out what our security institutions are doing and, furthermore, with the arrogance of leaking the information to The Washington Post,” Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at his daily news conference.
He was referring to a report in the newspaper over the weekend citing a leaked US classified document that noted the potential for worsening tensions between branches of Mexico’s armed forces.
According to the secret US military assessment, Mexico’s navy was frustrated with the likelihood of Lopez Obrador giving more responsibilities to the army, such as control of all national airspace, the newspaper said.
There was no indication that the intelligence – part of a major recent leak of US classified documents – was based on US wiretaps or intercepts of Mexican authorities, according to the Post.
Lopez Obrador, who later met with US ambassador Ken Salazar, also insisted that Mexico would not accept US anti-drug agents operating on its soil.
“There cannot be foreign agents in our country. No. We can share information, but it’s members of the Mexican Army, Navy and National Guard who can intervene,” he said.
The remarks came after the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said on Friday that it had infiltrated the infamous Sinaloa Cartel over the last year and a half, obtaining “unprecedented access to the organisation’s highest levels.”
The US justice department announced charges against four sons of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and their Chinese chemical suppliers in a crackdown on fentanyl trafficking networks.
Mexico reformed its national security law in 2021 to limit the operations of foreign agents.
The move came amid a row over the US’ arrest of a former Mexican defence minister.
Lopez Obrador accused the DEA of fabricating drug trafficking crimes against Salvador Cienfuegos – a key figure in ex-president Enrique Pena Nieto’s 2012-2018 government – and the charges were later dropped.
MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s president said Monday that his country would not tolerate spying by the US on its security institutions, as an intelligence leak sparked new diplomatic tensions between the neighbours.
“Acts of spying cannot be used to find out what our security institutions are doing and, furthermore, with the arrogance of leaking the information to The Washington Post,” Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at his daily news conference.
He was referring to a report in the newspaper over the weekend citing a leaked US classified document that noted the potential for worsening tensions between branches of Mexico’s armed forces.
According to the secret US military assessment, Mexico’s navy was frustrated with the likelihood of Lopez Obrador giving more responsibilities to the army, such as control of all national airspace, the newspaper said.
There was no indication that the intelligence – part of a major recent leak of US classified documents – was based on US wiretaps or intercepts of Mexican authorities, according to the Post.
Lopez Obrador, who later met with US ambassador Ken Salazar, also insisted that Mexico would not accept US anti-drug agents operating on its soil.
“There cannot be foreign agents in our country. No. We can share information, but it’s members of the Mexican Army, Navy and National Guard who can intervene,” he said.
The remarks came after the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said on Friday that it had infiltrated the infamous Sinaloa Cartel over the last year and a half, obtaining “unprecedented access to the organisation’s highest levels.”
The US justice department announced charges against four sons of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and their Chinese chemical suppliers in a crackdown on fentanyl trafficking networks.
Mexico reformed its national security law in 2021 to limit the operations of foreign agents.
The move came amid a row over the US’ arrest of a former Mexican defence minister.
Lopez Obrador accused the DEA of fabricating drug trafficking crimes against Salvador Cienfuegos – a key figure in ex-president Enrique Pena Nieto’s 2012-2018 government – and the charges were later dropped.
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kt comments:
Wankees spy not only on Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and other of her enemies but most treacherously on her own purported allies, eg. Germany (Angela Merkel's mobile phone), (especially) Poms, Aussies, French, Italians, Turks, South Americans, Africans, Arabs, Japs, South Koreans (recently exposed), etc etc etc and now Mexicans. Very treacherous so-called ally, wakakaka
You should know China has a large spying network in Malaysia, a Close ally of China.
ReplyDeleteTreacherous China indeed.
Treacherous?
DeleteWhich country has no counterintelligence outposts?
Yr idol Yank/pommie?
Left wing Wankers still living in their "USA Is Evil dream world".
ReplyDeleteThe People's Republic of China runs the most massive espionage network in the World, everything from technical intelligence to human agents spread throughout the world.
The China Ministry of State Security dwarfs the much maligned CIA in manpower, assets and budget
Mfer, where do it figures come from?
DeleteThose usual western propagandas media, right?
The most massive espionage network in the World, everything from technical intelligence to human agents spread throughout the world, inclusive of eavesdropping of allied leaders, is NOBE other than yr idol uncle Sam!
Don't lie through yr fart.
It turns out Mexico is the world's biggest user of the notorious Mobile Phone spying tool Pegasus.
ReplyDeleteTalk about hypocrisy from Mexico.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics!
DeleteYet, mfer, u have created a forth - lies from thin air!