political scientist, Denise Dresser Guerra, launched an acid criticism against the government of Mexico, led by the president Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)— because he accused the current administration of “not accepting its illegal actions and human rights violations”, after the Armed forces were charged with espionage work against an activist.
In a mocking tone, the writer posted a video on his Twitter account ICT Tacthe same in which he took up the most recent controversy of the federal administration, after an investigation by various organizations (Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D), Section 19 there Social tic) revealed that the armed forces had intervened in the communications of a human rights activist.
In the footage, you can see her dancing standing up, while at the top reads “Journalists and civilians”, in the next shot she changes the text to “AMLO and the army spying on them” as she is seen at half hidden behind a wall, lamp in hand and “suspicious” attitude.
Accompanied by the audiovisual, it reads: “We have a government of espionage which does not accept its illegal actions and its violations of the rights of the citizens”.
The post, which already has more than 4,000 views, comes days after President López Obrador issued a position regarding the investigation, in which he assured that the work of the Mexican Armed Forces was “intelligence work”.
On March 7 of this year, through his account Twitternon-governmental organization, Section 19, published a publication in which he revealed the existence of documents attesting to “a secret military structure” which allegedly spied Pegasus (And Spyware) to the defender Raymond Ramos for interferon in an investigation of military abuse in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
These actions, the organization determined, occurred with the full knowledge of the High Command.
“Secret Information Card Reveals Spy Army Tapped Into Private Communications Of Raymond Ramos with various journalists. The conversations focused on extrajudicial executions committed by the army, in Nuevo Laredo on July 3, 2020″, read in the informative thread.
The survey was based on the analysis of Citizen Laban interdisciplinary laboratory focused on cyberspace research and development, global security and human rights based in the University of Toronto, Canada.
with the work of Citizen Lab The activist’s calls have been determined to coincide with the time he was spied on with Pegasus.
Also in the internal documents, we found one in which he reveals that the Military Intelligence Center considers as one of its main threats “that the activities carried out in this center are made evident to public opinion”.
In this regard, the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He acknowledged his government was investigating and tracking civilians on March 10 during a morning conference, where he was reprimanded by a reporter who was investigating the case.
However, after his statement, he refused to call it espionage and assured that the purpose of the National Intelligence Center (CNI)in charge of General Audomaro Martinez Zapatais to prevent acts of “sabotage or crimes” committed by criminals.
“Buon, You have to do research, not espionage, it’s different and the government’s intelligence institute is conducting research,” the Federal President said.
In this sense, the man from Tabasco maintained that “intelligence is better than force”, to justify the CNI operation, even if he maintained that the military commanders forbidden engage in espionage: “we are no match for previous governments”, he cut short.