The eldest son of Mexico’s president and the governing social gathering’s presidential candidate stated Saturday that their phone numbers had been printed on social media and that they’ve acquired threats and insults. Each denounced the motion.
The incident got here a day after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador disclosed the phone number of a reporter for The New York Times, which printed a narrative a few U.S. probe into claims that López took cash from drug traffickers. López Obrador denied the allegations.
The primary to report the discharge of his telephone quantity was the president’s oldest son, José Ramón López Beltrán, who wrote on the X platform that he thought of the motion “a kind of vengeance” and stated it places his household in peril.
It wasn’t instantly clear who made the quantity public. López Beltrán stated the incident started with a letter that contained “threats and lies” directed on the president and his sons. He didn’t elaborate.
On Saturday, Mexico’s president instructed reporters that it was “embarrassing for them to act that way,” referring to everybody concerned.
He spoke whereas visiting town of Mazatlan and as soon as once more criticized The New York Occasions report, saying, “We are not taking a single step back in the defense of liberty and justice.”
López Beltrán stated it was the second time that his telephone quantity has been printed and famous he additionally has been harassed by cameras and drones all over the place he has lived.
López Beltrán additionally blamed the New York Occasions reporter, Natalie Kitroeff, for her telephone quantity being made public, saying she supplied the quantity “thinking that the president would respond to her slander.”
Hours later, the presidential candidate of López Obrador’s Morena social gathering, Claudia Sheinbaum, in addition to the social gathering’s secretary normal, Citlalli Hernández, introduced that their numbers additionally had been leaked and that they had been receiving offensive calls and messages.
“It’s obvious what they want to do, again their attacks are as crude as they are harmless,” Sheinbaum stated on her social media account and posted a screenshot of one of many messages she acquired.
The leak of the telephone information was condemned by Adrián Alcalá, head of the Nationwide Institute of Transparency, Entry to Info and Safety of Private Knowledge, an autonomous physique that ensures entry to info and the safety of private information in Mexico.
Alcalá stated on his X account that the physique would search to make sure the correct to the safety of private information in Mexico.
López Obrador on Friday defended his launch of Kitroeff’s quantity regardless of native laws on the safety of private information.
“Above that law is moral authority and political authority, and I represent a country and I represent a people who deserve respect,” the president stated.
Alcalá objected to these feedback, telling López Obrador that nobody in Mexico is above the regulation, together with the president and all different public officers.
“We regret that the Presidency does not warn how serious the disclosure of information by any person can be, especially by a journalist,” Alcalá stated on X.
López Obrador has questioned the necessity for Alcalá’s company on a number of events, and this month he offered an initiative in Congress to get rid of it and different autonomous businesses.
