Opponents bought millionaire equipment to spy on us, reveals AMLO

Nestor Jimenez and Roberto Garduno

Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, March 9, 2022, p. fifteen

After affirming that groups of vested interests continue to practice espionage, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador maintained that he has information that opponents bought millions of dollars worth of devices to to hack cell phones and WhatsApp messages, in order to obtain information and hit the media.

The president responded in this way by asking him again at his daily press conference about the impact of audio leaks such as those attributed to a conversation by the Attorney General of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz Manero.

As he did on Monday, yesterday he reiterated that those who engage in espionage are lawyers, corrupt politicians, large corporations, conservatives, political mafia: they continue to do that work.

He also revealed that “recently they informed us that all this group that is against us had bought devices – and I take this opportunity to report it, because it may not be true, but they are capable of everything – to get information from cell phones. ”.

As an example, he announced that in the office of the Presidency they received a WhatsApp message from the phone of the governor of Sonora, Alfonso Durazo, in which financial support was requested, but it was hack.

assured that they are determined to continue on the path of media coup; is to get information to make scandals with the media.

Although it is an illegal action, he asserted that they are not investigating because they will feel persecuted, and pointed out that Which owes nothing fears nothing. Imagine how long we have been spied on, just now they are spreading it to more people.

Instead, he recalled that he decided to disappear the Center for Investigation and National Security, and the intelligence agencies focus on confronting organized crime instead of opponents. He stressed that security communication systems are protected.

He noted that while the conservative bloc has teams of informants and journalists at your service, and during the six-year term of Enrique Peña Nieto, leaders were spied on, “we have many people who inform us; millions of intelligent citizens, who are not spies, will continue to send us information: the drivers of the fifisthe chefs, fellow waiters.”