The information hacked to the Secretary of National Defense, to which he had access The country, reveals the penetration of the Army not only in the civil sphere, but even in the private life of the President. Among other matters, he details how soldiers had to comply with orders from General Luis Crescencio Sandoval to “embroider his initials and those of his wife” on the towels used in his home.
Mexico City, October 1 (However).– The Army in the Zapatistas. The Army in the Maya Trend. The Army in the president’s health. The Army in the towels people of the Secretary General. The largest leak of information regarding the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) in Mexico reveals the enormous power that the military has over civilian life in the country. They build, protect, but also spy. And a lot.
The revelations released by the Truth Commission on Ayotzinapa they exhibit a military force infiltrating social movements just eight years ago. Now, leaks revealed this week show the military fighting drug lords in Mexico, but also keeping tabs on indigenous Zapatistas in the mountains of Chiapas. the spanish newspaper The country got more than four million of documents with conversations, orders, parties, account statements and informative notes between top and middle managers which confirms the same thing: a strong military presence that has now grown towards its construction side.
Millions of emails show the presence of the Armed Forces in all spheres of Mexico: from military operations, checking accounts, allegations of sexual abuse to the presence in the president’s inner circle
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Perhaps the leak did not occur at the best moment in national life. The Government is confronting the opposition parties because it wants the Army to remain in security tasks until 2028. Whether the parties’ concern is real or electoral, the truth is that the latest information does speak of the risks it may have a Nation, whatever it may be, with more and more civil tasks handed over to the military.
The report recently revealed by the Ayotzinapa Truth Commission also reveals the power of the Army: it knew in real time what happened the Night of Iguala because during the disappearance of students intervened telephone communications a United Warriorscalls in which they talked regarding the normalists and “where should the young people be sent from”.
Even the members of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) said there was a direct relationship between members of the Army, police and criminals; what United Warriorsrelatives of the 43, and local and state police officers in the region were watched by Sedena with the Pegasus espionage program.
The GIEI also revealed that in the files opened by Sedena –by order of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in his capacity as Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces– communications were found between members of Guerreros Unidos that show the relationship that existed between the group criminal with the military, specifically with the Capital José Martínez Crespo and Colonel Rafael Hernández and even with Navy personnel, which has not yet been investigated; as well as with municipal presidents and local police.
That early morning of September 16, 2014Among the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School who were attacked and subsequently disappeared by authorities at different levels and members of organized crime, was a boy who was also part of the Mexican Army: José Luis López Patolzin.
“His story goes further and gives a key twist to the facts”, narrates a new video made by the Presidential Commission for Truth and Access to Justice in the Ayotzinapa case (CoVAJ) and published this Friday in the official account of the Government from Mexico.
The details of the young López Patolzin are not new, since their participation as members of the Armed Forces was revealed in August, when the commission presented its report, but the video is published in the midst of the controversy over the participation of the Army in the Ayotzinapa case. and the cancellation of part of the arrest warrants once morest military.
THE ARMY IN EVERYTHING
The leaks published today by El País, which go from the year 2010 to September 2022, are among a cluster of electronic communications that were extracted by a group of hackers called Guacamaya.
Emails reviewed by The countryaccording to the note signed by the journalists Jacobo García and Elías Camhaji, confirm that the tasks carried out until now by the Presidential General Staff, which was dissolved when it came to power, have been replaced by a small group of soldiers that accompanies, coordinates and It gives security to the activities of the López Obrador family and part of the cabinet.
“Members of the Sedena are in charge of doing the medical follow-up of the President, his wife Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller and their children. They are also in charge of the covid-19 PCR tests and the physical therapies that the president usually performs at the facilities of the Heroic Military College of Tlalpan, which he uses for walks. The Army has the task of handing over the results of the medical tests to the president alone, and even the Secretary of Public Security, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, entrusted the Sedena with the medical treatment for the cure of covid in 2020”, highlights today the medium.
The Country He adds that this group of soldiers is also in charge of such diverse tasks that range from domestic functions in the National Palace, such as changing the plants every three months, to reviewing the security cameras of the National Palace and the other eight cameras installed in his house in Tlalpan. . The emails consulted have allowed us to see the constant monitoring of the presidential activities and family members who are named in internal communications as “Zeus”, Andrés Manuel López Obrador or “Aura”, for Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller.
The hacked correspondence also brought to light minor details, such as the fact that military personnel bought tickets for General Luis Crescencio Sandoval in April to attend the Gloria Trevi concert at the Mexico City Auditorium and how they had to carry out his orders. of “embroidering his initials and those of his wife” on the towels they use at home.
The information published by The country It also reveals that there is a permanent control of relevant political actors, social movements such as Zapatismo and each and every one of the publications of the national and international press, although the vast majority of the documents contain information that is already public.
Yesterday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged that hacked files revealed previously unknown details regarding a serious health problem he suffered in January.
The 68-year-old president downplayed the act of hacking, saying “there is nothing that is not known.” He stated that the intrusion apparently occurred during a change in the cyber systems of the Ministry of National Defense.
The group that calls itself Guacamaya, made up of anonymous elements that claim to be warriors for social justice, claims to use hacking to expose injustice and corruption in defense of indigenous peoples. Previously, hackers using the same name stole and disclosed the emails of a mining company that had long faced accusations of human rights violations and environmental damage in Guatemala.
The 10 terabytes of information stolen by the group also include emails from the armed forces of El Salvador, Peru and Colombia, and the Salvadoran National Police. Apparently Mexico was the country that suffered the most data theft.
