Comments by Mexico’s president comply with a report citing a leaked US categorized doc that famous the potential for worsening tensions between branches of Mexico’s armed forces.
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Mexico’s president has mentioned that his nation wouldn’t tolerate spying by the United States on its safety establishments, 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 mentioned on Monday at his day by day news convention.
He was referring to a report within the newspaper over the weekend citing a leaked US categorized doc that famous the potential for worsening tensions between branches of Mexico’s armed forces.
According to the key US navy evaluation, Mexico’s navy was pissed off with the probability of Lopez Obrador giving extra tasks to the military, similar to management of all nationwide airspace, the newspaper mentioned.
There was no indication that the intelligence — a part of a significant latest leak of US categorized paperwork — was based mostly on US wiretaps or intercepts of Mexican authorities, in keeping with the Post.
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Fabricating drug trafficking crimes
Lopez Obrador, who later met with US Ambassador Ken Salazar, additionally insisted that Mexico wouldn’t settle for US brokers working 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 mentioned.
The remarks got here after the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) mentioned on Friday that it had infiltrated the notorious Sinaloa Cartel over the past yr and a half, acquiring “unprecedented access to the organisation’s highest levels.”
The US Justice Department introduced costs in opposition to 4 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 nationwide safety regulation in 2021 to restrict the operations of international brokers.
The transfer got here amid a row over the United States’ arrest of a former Mexican defence minister.
Lopez Obrador accused the DEA of fabricating drug trafficking crimes in opposition to Salvador Cienfuegos — a key determine in ex-president Enrique Pena Nieto’s 2012-2018 authorities — and the fees have been later dropped.
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Source: AFP
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